I am setting up a combination of transactional and merge replicationon a very large database and do not want to apply the initial snapshotsince this would take to long. I am doing this with scripts that werepreviosly created when the database was not this big. I want to copythe publisher DB over to the Subscriber Server. Can I use theparameter @sync_type to 'none' when running the sp_addsubscription?Does anyone have any experience in doing this?Thanks in Advance for any help on this.Alan
I seem to have a strange problem when applying a snapshot when the tables in the publication have been updated while the snapshot was being generated.
Say for example there is a table called RMAReplacedItem in the publication. When the snapshot starts being applied to the subscriber, a stored procedure called sp_MSins_RMAReplacedItem_msrepl_css gets created that handles an insert if the row already exists (ie it updates the row rather than inserting it). However, after all the data has been loaded into the tables, instead of calling this procedure, it tries to call one called sp_MSins_RMAReplacedIte_msrepl_cssm - it takes the last letter of the table name and adds it to the end of the procedure name.
The worst part is that this causes the application of the snapshot to fail, but it doesnt report what the error is, and instead it just tries applying the snapshot again. The only way i have managed to find which call is failing is to run profiler against the subscriber while the snapshot is being applied and see what errors.
I have run sp_broswereplcmds and the data in there is what is applied to the subscriber - ie the wrong procedure name.
All the servers involved are running sql 2005 service pack 2. The publisher and subscriber were both upgraded from sql 2000, but the distribution server is a fresh install of sql 2005.
I have a mirred database and have snapshot created from the mirroed database. I can do data selecting from the snapshot. But when the pricipal server is down , I can re-active the mirroed database.( I did succesfully upto this). Then I need to restore the database from snapshot and which failing with following error message.
Code Snippet Msg 5123, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 3(error not found) while attempting to open or create the physical file 'E:sql_datadevitst_mirrorlog st_mirror_log.ldf'. Msg 5024, Level 16, State 2, Line 3 No entry found for the primary log file in sysfiles1. Could not rebuild the log. Msg 5028, Level 16, State 2, Line 3 The system could not activate enough of the database to rebuild the log. Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
Hi... Why is it that I encounter an error during execution of database snapshot i SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition. It says that database snapshot is not supported under standard versin. Is this true?
Need some help, i have some database snapshots files provided from an external source. Need to be able to understand how i get them back into a database format if possible.
Files for example are table1.bcp, table2.bcp with als a file called scheme.sql which sets up these tables in sql but does not populate them. Nothing else was provided except a .vcd file which i dont know whtat its for.
Does anyone know of a script I can run to take a snapshot of a SQL server 7 database? If not what is the best way to go about getting a snapshot of the db?
Hi everyone, I am looking for a way to check to see if a database is a snapshot or not. You can for example check different properties of a database by running the following:
Cannot find either column "dbo" or the user-defined function or aggregate "dbo.fn_ComputerHeartbeat", or the name is ambiguous. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 4121) Get help: http://help/4121
Cannot find either column "dbo" or the user-defined function or aggregate "dbo.fn_ComputerHeartbeat", or the name is ambiguous. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 4121) Get help: http://help/4121
Unfortunately I can't find much help with this error.
Hello Every I have a problem with ASP.NET connect to Database Snapshot SQL Server 2005. Step One: I create database snapshot. Step Two: I want to use ASP.NET to Database Snapshot that create already. But I don't know connection string to database snapshot. Please help me ............................ Thank You,
The following list of actions leads to a corrupt database on SQL Server 2005.
Create a database snapshot Drop a table in the database Backup the database Restore from backup Revert to the snapshot
I'm not entirely surprised that it results in a corruption, what is surprising is that I can revert from a snapshot after restoring. There needs to be some kind of check to prevent reverting to a snapshot in a case like this. Until SQL Server prevents you from doing it, I'd recommend a best practice is to delete all snapshots before you restore a database so that you cannot do this by accident.
I need to restore a sql server 2000 database which does not have any backups apart from a snapshot folder which contains some .bcp, .IDX and .Sch files. (there was a transactional replication setup on this database at some point and the snapshot folder is still there.)
Is this possible? any help will be highly appreciated.
I would like to use SQL Server's built in database snapshot feature. We have a database (e.g., ThatDatabase), and I would like to capture a snapshot of it at exactly midnight each morning. I would need the snapshot to have the same name each day (e.g., ThatDatabase12AM). My non-technical end users (statisticians with SAS) are going to use the snapshot a lot, but are not going to be able to handle it it having a different name every day.
Obviously, I could set up a job with a start time of 23:59:50 that drops the existing snapshot and then creates a new snapshot. This would have the problem that the snapshot name disappears for a few seconds every day. That would either a) kill user sessions, or b) block the snapshot drop and delay the new snapshot until after exactly 12:00 AM.
I am in process of moving a SQL 2005 solution from a development box that used local storage to UAT environment with SAN attached storage. The solution uses database snapshots
The database files are on the SAN storage but during testing I was unable to create a Database snapshot on the SAN disk. Creating snapshots on the local disk worked fine.
Is their some restriction/problem in using the database snapshot technology with SAN storage?
We have SQL 2005 db mirror configured with a witness server for high availability. Node 1 is the principal and Node 2 is the mirror. A nightly job creates a snapshot on Node 2. The snapshot is used for previous day reporting queries. We have now been asked to present another copy of the database for near-time reporting. I thought about possibly adding a peer-to-peer replication as part of my environment but was hoping to see what everyone else out there is doing.
I have a created a snapshot and I'd like to know if there is a way for all the existing and future queries to refer to the database snapshot. Is there any way to do this?Â
I have huge database on prod. One time I tried to run DBCC CHECKDB, it took more than a day. My question is can I created a snapshot of the prod database on the same server and run DBCC CHECKDB on the Snapshot DB? will doing this interfere production database? I don’t have option to make copy of the database on a test server and run it there.
How do I set up a database snapshot and backup the database for Windows Server Update Services 3.0, that uses the "desktop" version of SQL server on the same server running Widows Server 2003? There does not seem to be a "Management Plans" sub-folder under the "management" folder in the Management Studio Express console- so that's probably my first request- how do I establish a "Management Plans" subfolder, then how do I (step-by-step) set up a backup of the SUSDB?
whenenver i run cold fusion, it automatically gets my tables out of the master database instead of the new one i have created. i've added a user that has a default to the new database instead of the master, but i need to know how to use that new user correctly, and what i will need to do once i start adding more databases so that cold fusion will go to the appropriate database and not to the master.
Process to create snapshot failed (twice per day snapshot of the database is being created for some people to work on). Morning snapshot worked fine but the afternoon one failed. The snapshot is being created from Mirror database. I used this code:
CREATE DATABASE [DB_snapshot] ON (name = N'DB',filename = N'D:SnapshotDB.SQLSnapshot' ) ,(name = N'indexes',filename = N'D:SnapshotDB_indexes.SQLSnapshot' ) AS SNAPSHOT OF DB
And the error message i get
Msg 1823, Level 16, State 6, Line 1 A database snapshot cannot be created because it failed to start. Msg 1823, Level 16, State 7, Line 1 A database snapshot cannot be created because it failed to start. Msg 3456, Level 21, State 1, Line 1 Could not redo log record (202011:19306:2), for transaction ID (0:0), on page (1:1823948), allocation unit 281474979397632, database 'DB_snapshot' (database ID 6). Page: LSN = (201954:220201:1), allocation unit = 281474979397632, type = 1. Log: OpCode = 4, context 18, PrevPageLSN: (202010:23679:1). Restore from a backup of the database, or repair the database. Msg 3313, Level 21, State 1, Line 1
During redoing of a logged operation in database 'DB_snapshot', an error occurred at log record ID (202011:19306:2). Typically, the specific failure is previously logged as an error in the Windows Event Log service. Restore the database from a full backup, or repair the database.
What might be causing this error? Mirroring seems to be working OK. status is "Synchronized"
We recently migrated our production server from SQL 2005 (Standard) on Win2003(32-bit) to SQL2012 (Standard; v11.0.3000) on Win2008-R2(64bit). Single-server Dell R510 with 1.2TB storage. Everything went smoothly; the only nagging issue remaining is failure of our maintenance jobs. I tracked the issue down to failure of DBCC CHECKDB. Specifically, the error is:Executed as user: NT SERVICESQLSERVERAGENT. The database could not be exclusively locked to perform the operation. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 5030) Check statement aborted. The database could not be checked as a database snapshot could not be created and the database or table could not be lockedI have Googled this issue and read extensively. For instance, informative blogs (albeit dated) such as these by Paul Randal (Managing
CheckDB by default takes an internal DB snapshot to get the consistent, point-in-time view of the DB that it needs. If that snapshot creation fails, then it will try to get an exclusive database lock before proceeding (same as if you had executed DBCC CHECKDB WITH TABLOCK). The root problem is not that the lock could not be obtained, it's that the internal database snapshot could not be created. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188796.aspx details the specific situations when an internal database snapshot is not created and table locking is attempted.Â
 I have verified the SQLSERVERAGENT service account has full permissions on the SQLDATA directory where the databases reside and has full permissions on each database within the directory. Just for giggles, I created a job (run as SQLSERVERAGENT) that creates and then deletes a text file in the SQLDATA directory. It runs fine.
Also testedI get the snapshot creation error when manually running DBCC CHECKDB against any of our databases and when executing under a variety of administrator accounts that are members of the SQL sysadmin role and the Domain Admins security group (the Domain Admins is a member of the local Administrators group that has full permissions on all SQL directories/folders).
Additionally, the databases in question are small (200MB to 6GB) and the disk has plenty of elbow room (978GB free on 1.22TB RAID5 array) to create the internal database snapshots. CHECKDB doesn't surface an error message that is detailed enough to determine the precise cause of the error. Any example successfully running DBCC CHECKDB on the SQL2012 (Standard) on a Win2008 R2 (64-bit) server.
I have been using MySQL as the back end of my .Net 2.0 applications for a while using a custom membership provider without any problems.Having now switched to a new webhost which supports both MySQL and MS SQL Server 2005 and also creating a new site thought I should set up the new site to use MS SQL..... I am having trouble however setting up the SQL server to act as the membership provider. Following the advice on here I tried using aspnet_regsql.exe... Firstly, when trying to get the list of databasses on the remote server I get the following error: Failed to query a list of database names from the SQL Server. Invalid object name 'Sysdatabases' If I then just type in the name of my database and go through to the end I get the following error:Exception:An error occurred during the execution of the SQL file 'InstallCommon.sql'. The SQL error number is 8152 and the SqlException message is: String or binary data would be truncated. I can connect to my MS SQL server remotely without any problem using the likes of MS SQL Server Management Studio Express. Is there any other way I can setup the databases needed for user and roles access control or is the usage of MS SQL much more complicated than what MySQL was?
. The BPA recommend that the model database setting for the items below be set to on. I can accomplish this task through the query analyzer and run the set command. (Set ANSI_NULLS on). The response is positive but when I re-run the report the setting are back off.
I'm in the process of trying to set up my first SQL Server database and things aren't going as per the book! (surprise, surprise).
The 'Identity Specification' option during Table creation, is 'greyed out' and won't let me set (Is Identity) to 'Yes' or anything else for that matter.
I guess that there's a simple answer to this one, but as a newbie to SQL Server ( and VB 2005) I'm curently at a loss.
I'm having trouble changing data in my database. It is actually a VB cuestion, but you see, i just finished lesson 9 of the begginers Visual Basic 2005 video series and in my last run i can't save the data i've changed into the database. no errors are shown, it just does't change the values. i know for a fact that the code is well written and there is no problem with the configuration of buttons and such, because i folowed the steps 50 times so I believe it must be a SQL configuration problem. does anybony have any insight on what the problem might be. THX malcolm
we have a database that only serves Select requests (no OLTP) for our very high traffic websites. what are the benefits of turning on read-only setting for the database if there are no transactions occuring in the database? does sql server put locks on tables for SELECT statements?
There has been a lot of discussion about moving single databases or devices in same server. Can someone suggest the most simplest method to set up a identical server with all the logins, permissions and password etc?
Building a new server with sp_help_revdatabase and dumps/loads is relatively easy but moving the master is confusing to me. I should run the new server and databases for a little testing period (with diffrent server name, of course) and then go live by dropping the old and by adding the new. I remember someone said that this would be as easy as copying master.dat to new machine (when servers are identical), any experience or other suggestions?
Does anyone know how to set a database priority? I have a SQL Server that contains multipule databases. One of the databases is very high priority. I need to make sure that no matter what is running on the server that this database's processes take priority and nothing slows it down.
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I want to query my databases to find out if Auto Shrink is set. I know the status column in sysdatabases holds this value as a bit setting but I don't know how can I check this value using a query.