I received alerts from a couple of the production servers last night stating that the log file is running out of space. So, I took some log backups and shrunk those files. However, I would like to find out what made the log grow like that. After all, I have t-log backups scheduled every 30 minutes.Is there a way I can find out the reason behind the log growth?
View 9 RepliesI need to monitor my database growth, as few of databases are growing rapidly. My client wants the growth list of my databases. have report of database growth of specific databases, at least of one month.
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30/6/2015 10%
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I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 database.
I have modified the autogrowth configuration several times. The strangest thing... they keep reverting back to the original configuration.
I am getting the error The transaction log for database 'ReplicationDB' is full due to 'LOG_BACKUP'.log_reuse_wait_desc from sys.databases is showing logbackup
The database is subscribed database. We configured transactional replication. But the transactional replication is getting errors and failed. Is there relation b/n this replication failures and log growth in subscriber db?
Any good starting point to understand for a specific db, how many max VLFs are good to have so that it does not cause long startup or backup times?
Also, I need some calculation so that I can identify a best growth parameter I will setup for each database ?
I'm seeing the below msg in errorlog and curious to know the changes (right sizing/growth) to be done? As of now 100 MB of log file growth value is set (refer: [URL] ....)
Database BizTalkMsgBoxDb has more than 1000 virtual log files which is excessive. Too many virtual log files can cause long startup and backup times. Consider shrinking the log and using a different growth increment to reduce the number of virtual log files.
Does there a way or script to find the rows, space used by the specific tables based on every year.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there any automated script available to - "Monitor Database Growth and if any DB is grown by 20%, sending mail alerts"? If not, what is the approach to write the T SQL script ?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHi DBA's,
I have the tran log backups running every 30 mins. When I re-build indexes on my database with the tran log back ups runniing every 30 mins, I get tran log backups whose size is greater than the actual log file (.LDF). I find this really strange as to how can the backup be greater than the log file itself.
I have unrestricted growth on the tran log file ( By 10%). Auto Shrink is disabled.
Have any of you experienced this problem. Kindly share your comments.
Thanks,
V
During my maintenance plans every night, my transaction log for a 17GB database grows to about 9.5GB. I am running transaction log backups every 2 hours, and my transaction log stays around 300MB during the day. However, every night when the optimization job runs, this explosive growth occurs. I have the optimizations set to Reorganize data and index pages, changing free space to 10%, and remove unused space from database files to 10%, shrinking when they grow beyond 50MB. This database handles cash register operations which are not active during the maintenance plan.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe had some SAN issues and we dont have Transaction Log files for some databases.. The drive which was holding this Tlog files were missing.. How to bring back databases.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am confused about save transaction in the below scenario :
begin transaction
save transaction t1
delete from #t1
save transaction t2
begin try
delete from #t2
[Code] ....
If there is error after delete #t2 , transaction t1 is rolled back. But i am not able to understand why i am getting error in the statement 'rollback transaction t2' . I am getting error as 'Cannot roll back t2. No transaction or savepoint of that name was found.'. but save point t2 is mentioned in the code.
Currently, we are on SQL2008R2 EE SP1 CU13 across the board.
We are planning on upgrading the primary SQL server to SP3.
Question: Will transactional replication continue to work properly even if the Publisher is upgraded to SP3 but the subscribers remain at SP1 CU13 ?
I am trying to reorganise the log files on a server, (long story short they are fragmented so I want to shrink and reset the initial size and growth) and I am unable to shrink them. When I run the following:
use test
DBCC SHRINKFILE(test_log, TRUNCATEONLY)
--or
use
DBCC SHRINKFILE(test_log,2, TRUNCATEONLY)
I get the following message:
Msg 8985, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Could not locate file 'test_log' for database 'test' in sys.database_files. The file either does not exist, or was dropped.
I get this message for every database on the server. I got the logical name of the file using sp_helpfile and have checked it against sys.masterfiles, sys.database_files and sys.sysaltfiles, all match up and confirm the name 'test_log'.
I rebooted the server last night and was able to shrink the first couple of .ldf's I tried so I presumed it was fixed. This morning when I try again i get the sanme error, I don't see anything in the SQL server or system logs that indicates a change.
I am able to add new log files and remove log files, however if I add a new log file (test_log2) and then try and truncate that file I get the same error.
Having a lot of problems with backup device creating backups with a new transaction log for each day. This is causing the backups to grow way to fast. Seems to be random with our clients. Created new device backups but getting same problem. A manual backup selecting overwrite all existing backup sets will fix it. But starts the cycle all over again.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am altering a table ( changing the data type to varchar (8000) from nvarchar (1500) ) with 352929 rows. I get the transaction log full error.
The database is in FULL RECOVERY model. I changed the recovery model to SIMPLE and performed the alter but I still run into error.
I have two tables one list changes of hospital ward and one lists changes of consultant doctor. These can change independently ie a ward change can occur without a consultant change and vice versa. I want to summarise these changes to give the status at each date_serial value.
create table #temp_ward_stay(date_serial bigint,ward_id varchar(10))
;
insert into #temp_ward_stay
values
(201501021200,'W1'),(201501031201,'W2'),(201501091200,'W3'),(201501161200,'W4'),(201501161201,'W5')(201501271200,'W3'),(201502101200,'W5')
;
create table #temp_consultant_episode(
date_serial bigint,
consultant_id varchar(10))
;
insert into #temp_consultant_episode values
(201501021200,'C1'),(201501031200,'C2'),(201501031201,'C3'),(201501091201,'C4'),
(201501121200,'C3'),(201501301200,'C6'),(201502111200,'C6'),(201502111201,'C7')
;
If I use:
select date_serial,consultant_id,null as ward_id from #temp_consultant_episode
union
select date_serial,null as consultant_id,ward_id from #temp_ward_stay
I get:
date_serial ward_id consultant_id
-------------------- ---------- -------------
201501021200 NULL C1
201501021200 W1 NULL
201501031200 NULL C2
201501031201 NULL C3
201501031201 W2 NULL
201501091200 W3 NULL
201501091201 NULL C4
201501121200 NULL C3
201501161200 W4 NULL
[code].....
whereas what I actually want is:
date_serialward_idconsultant_id
201501021200W1C1
201501031200W1C2
201501031201W2C3
201501091200W3C3
201501091201W3C4
201501121200W3C3
201501161200W4C3
201501161201W5C3
[code].....
I can see how I could remove the nulls where the date_serial values are the same:
select ce.date_serial,ward_id,consultant_id from #temp_consultant_episode ce
join #temp_ward_stay ws
on ce.date_serial=ws.date_serial
but I can't see how to move forward from here.
i would like to know it's possible to find all transaction(insert, delete,update) on a database for a day. if yes what can i do.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCurrently we has a database of size about 300G. Because our backup system failed some time past we were left with a transaction log file which grew to about 160G. However our backups are working again and everything is working fine. My understanding is that now the transaction log file is practically empty but the capacity remains at 160G.
When you delete records the deleted transactions are going to get logged to the transaction file. My understanding is when a backup is done these transactions get discarded out of the transaction file.
could I make use of this relatively large transaction file and start deleting transactions without out actually adding to the transaction file size.
The plan is to delete records from logging tables that are not referenced to by any other table without this increasing the transaction log file.For example over a period of a few weeks we can delete a chunk of records from a table. Then after it has completed a backup we can delete another chunk of records out of this table until we have got the table down to the records that we now need.Will this work?
I have a table called employee_punch_record that we use to store employee time clock punches.
The columns are:
employeeid,
punch_timestamp,
punch_type (In / Out),
closed (bit used as status for open or closed pay periods),
ident
Here are some examples of a record:
bkingery62015-10-06 16:59:04.000In0
bkingery72015-10-06 16:59:09.000Out0
bkingery82015-10-06 16:59:13.000In0
bkingery92015-10-06 18:22:44.000Out0
bkingery102015-10-06 18:22:46.000In0
bkingery112015-10-06 18:22:48.000Out0
bkingery122015-10-06 18:22:51.000In0
tfeller52015-10-05 17:00:05.000In0
We are using SQL Server 2008 as our database and use Access as a GUI. I am looking to create a form in Access where employees can access their time card and request changes from management. I want to use the format from the attached screen shot for the form. I pretty much know how to do it all, the only point of complication is trying to figure out the easiest way to get the transaction punch record data on employee_punch_record into a format where I can easily populate the form in the horizontal format you see in the screen shot.
I am not super strong in SQL, but figure I can do it using a formatting table of some sort. quick and easy way to move transaction records into a more horizontally oriented record?
We are running SQL Server 7.0 SP2, and are experiencing the following out-of-
space error message:
"Could not allocate new page for database 'FooBar'.
There are no more pages available in filegroup SECONDARY.
Space can be created by dropping objects, adding additional files,
or allowing file growth."
Needless to say, but the the database is set for 10% unlimited autogrowth and there
IS available space in the partition where the filegroup resides.
Any ideas as to why this is happening? What is SQL Server's algorithm for allocating
space when growing a database? Must it satisfy the request in one 'extent' and the
cause of our problem is that our disk is fragmented?
Thanks in advance.
Bill Zimmer - zim@ibx.com
I have a SQL Server 2005 SP2 instance and I detach/attach a database to the system and changed the file growth parameter from 10% to 100MB. Now when I look at the file growth parameter, it is showing 12800% instead of 100MB. I did some research and I found out this is an issue with SQL Server since MSSQL 2000. Is there a way to fix this issue using ALTER DATABASE or some other SQL command?
Thanks in advance for the help.
A log file size of a production database has been increase from 4gb to 150 gb initial size.Now i want to find when it will grow & how much it grow & which transaction is responsible for this.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm aware of the issues with sizing your logfile growth size too low (causing too many VLFs, etc). But I haven't seen much about the datafile side of it.
Are there any benchmarks specifically on setting datafile growth so low (on databases 1-100Gb in size)? Are there circumstances in well utilized servers where that might be warranted?
I am only DBA in my company and client want to know the growth rate of his SQL server DataBase which is in production. How can I get the growth rate per day?
View 3 Replies View RelatedSecondary server is offline due to a hardware issue and the log files are growing on Primary sever for availability databases. The log drive is running out of space. How can I stop the log growth for the primary databases?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI setup data collection on a production server to capture growth rates.
When I run the dis usage report, it shows a daily growth rate of over 500 megs. This seems excessive to me.
As a troubleshooting step I then ran sp_space used and got these results:
database_namedatabase_sizeunallocated space
rgc_prod 273442.63 MB3648.48 MB
reserved data index_size unused
265345488 KB164385384 KB99826072 KB1134032 KB
What should my next steps be to try and determine why there is so much growth? And isn't the index size rather large?
I got into confusion while working on DB Growth report for 2012 databases which has compression on.I am analyzing the DB Growth based on MSDB..dbo.backupset table which stores the backup information.
But here it gets tricky, In Previous versions we use "backup_size" column to get actual backup size and estimate the db growth based on the previous all backup file info. But now since compression is on in 2012 the "backup_size" colmuns gives a compressed file size(If i am right) so how do you know the actual backup size to estimate the db growth over a period of time??
I have Full database backup upto previous day and transaction logfile of Today transaction. my database has crashed. I have restored previous day's Full backup. I have faced difficulty to restore today's transaction from today's transaction log. What are the steps to restore full database back and one day's transaction log file. Note: there is no differential database backup and transaction backup.
View 8 Replies View RelatedThere are a few features in the new SQL Server - Reporting Services that I really need in production. I have tested everything and it works great. I am running the CTP version since Microsoft is saying they aren't releasing the release version until 3rd quarter 2008.
Since Microsoft won't sell SQL 2008 until 3rd quarter, can I run the CTP in production until the release and then purchase SQL 2008?
Jim
Hello - does anyone have experience w/SQL Server 2005 in a virtual environment? I'm considering this for a production environment but not sure if performance will suffer. Our databases will have a lot of writing but not too much reading. A SSRS solution is currently the only app. connecting to the SQL db. Max users to server at any given time will be very low (~10 users max). But the databases are pulling in data from other, outside multiple data sources on a daily basis.
Any pointers to documentation or any advice?
Thanks,
A Brown
Hello!
Recently, I set up server with Windows Web Server 2008 RC1, SQL 2008 Express beta, .NET 3.5, IIS 7.
I'm running ASP.NET web application with SQL database. Everything works fine until the first application state on the server expires. After that, any postback that starts a new application state on the server and connects to the database, results in the following error:
Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed.
Is this a bug that will be fixed in release of Windows / SQL or am I doing something wrong?
Many thanks for help,
Jan
Hi all,
New to this so please be patient and please help.
I have developed an SQL 2005 Express command line option install for our company which has been working seamlessly for the last 18 months.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259.aspx
I downloaded the €œMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 Express CTP, February 2008€? from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=749BD760-F404-4D45-9AC0-D7F1B3ED1053&displaylang=en
I simply replaced the 2005 file €œSQLEXPR.EXE€? with the 2008 file €œ€?, recompiled the installation and tested only for it to fail. I than read the 2008 books online and noted the change in command line options.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19DB0B42-A5B2-456F-9C5C-F295CDD58D7A&displaylang=en
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144259(SQL.100).aspx
I then changed the command line to suit the Microsoft 2008 books online, recompiled the installation and tested only for it to fail once more.
Interestingly I tested the install from the default GUI and at the point of adding the €œsa€? login credentials it fails to allow the installation to proceed. Strangely by selecting the windows authentication credentials, €œnext€? than €œback€? it now allows me to add the €œsa€? login credentials and continues to install correctly as required.
I hope I have explained this clearly enough.
1. Is this a bug in the €œMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 CTP, February 2008€? installation?
2. If so is this causing the command line install options to fail?
3. How do I obtain a version of €œMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 Express€? that will work installing from the command line?
Thanks in advance.