I'm attempting to alter a database by removing one of two log files. I have truncated both log files successfully and the database has no processes but I get an error stating file cannot be removed because it is not empty. Help
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Hi,
I'm trying to change the file extension of one of the database files of a big database that contains 10 years of EPOS data.
When this file was created, at the beginning of 2008, with the following script:
USE [Live]
ALTER DATABASE [Live] ADD FILE (NAME = 'Live_2008',
FILENAME = €˜E:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLDataLive_2008') TO FILEGROUP [2008]
the .ndf file extension was not added to the filename. So the file now has a file type of "File", instead of "SQL Server Secondary Data File"
I tried, in a test environment, to bring the database offline, change the filename to "Live_2008.ndf" and bring the database back online, but it gives me an error message saying that "cannot open the Live_2008 file", i'm guessing because it's looking for "Live_2008" and it finds "Live_2008.ndf" instead.
This file is quite big (5Gb) and I cannot afford to risk to lose any data.
The situation is complicated even further by the fact that it seems that a partition for 2008 does not exist.
How can I find out what data this file contains?
Is it going to be an issue if I leave the file like that?
Thanks
We are running into the following error while changing a column data type from nvarchar (1200) to varchar(8000)
"Msg 1105, Level 17, State 2, Line 1
Could not allocate space for object 'dbo.TBL1 '.'PK_CL_ID' in database 'Client01' because the 'PRIMARY' filegroup is full. Create disk space by deleting unneeded files, dropping objects in the filegroup, adding additional files to the filegroup, or setting autogrowth on for existing files in the filegroup.
The statement has been terminated."
Now tried to change the filegrowth of the log file to unlimited
ALTER DATABASE Client01
MODIFY FILE ( NAME = Client01_log, MAXSIZE = unlimited);
The query executes without error but I do not see the auto growth as unrestricted. It's still 2GB
I can run this command to make changes for 1 DB USE [master]
GO
ALTER DATABASE [DBName] MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'Name_log', FILEGROWTH = 10000KB )
GO
Is it possible to create a script which changes log file size to let's say 100MB for all DBs in all servers instead of running the above command by logging into each server? We have about 200 servers and close to 3000 DBs.
Hi,
I have been trying to figure out how to use ALTER TABLE/ COLUMN to modify a column from an IDENTITY column to one which is not an IDENTITY column.
I would like to do this so that I could add another column (using ALTER) and set it as the IDENTITY column.
Any thoughts?
Your help is much appreciated,
-Scott
We are running SQL server 2003 with SP3. I'm trying to
shrink a data files with the emptyfile option so I can
eventually remove the file using the alter database
command. However, I get the following error message when I
run the alter database command:
Error: the file PRADATA4 cannot be removed because it is
not empty.
The file that I'm trying to remove still has 62 extents on it.
I looked MS Knowledge base 254253 and 279511 on this problem but they say it is corrected by SQL server 7.0 with service pack 3.
commands that I'm running are as follows:
1) USE PRA
DBCC TRACEON(8901)
DBCC SHRINKFILE ('PRADATA4', EMPTYFILE)
DBCC TRACEOFF(8901)
2) USE PRA
GO
ALTERDATABASE PRA
REMOVE FILE PRADATA4
GO
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Hi,I'm trying to remove certain words from my Order clause. For example on iTunes they have removed the word 'The' from the start of artist names so that all the bands that start with 'The' don't appear grouped together. I'm trying to do a similar thing with University names so that all universities which begin with 'University of' or 'The' don't appear together.Is this possible?Thanks for your help!,Curt.
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I have SQL Server Standart Edition and ý have a database, MDF file size is 650 MB, log file size is 1,23 GB
I tried to shrink the log file but i didnt shrink, I wanr to remove all records from the log file
How I remove records from the log file I want to shrink this file to 1 or 2 MB
Please help me
I'm taking the Administration of a DB wich it has on system table sysaltfiles some leftoff files that are not being used anymore on TempDB,
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I tried ALTER DATABASE tempdb remove file XXXX , it did not work...
I got this error:
ALTER DATABASE failed. Some disk names listed in the statement were not found. Check that the names exist and are spelled correctly before rerunning the statement.
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Problem: When I run the script against a database with an active/sleeping connection:It fails when using the restricted login: "Msg 5061...ALTER DATA BASE failed because a lock could not be placed on database ..."It completes successfully when using a sysadmin login According to stackoverflow.com the solution is to kill the active/sleeping connections to the database, before ALTER-ing it, which works fine, but the question is....
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Hi,
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Can I execute these commands while the database is in
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ColdFusion web app)?
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.
I have added ndf to tempdb for checking performance improvement.... Now I want to remove the ndf file... I am using below command...
USE tempdb
GO
DBCC SHRINKFILE (3, TRUNCATEONLY);
GO
use master
go
ALTER DATABASE TEMPDB Remove FILE tempdev1
Results:
DbIdFileIdCurrentSizeMinimumSizeUsedPagesEstimatedPages
23766476643232
Error:-
(1 row(s) affected)
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
Msg 5042, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The file 'tempdev1' cannot be removed because it is not empty.
Note:
=>I restarted SQLServer from SSMS and then ran same commands mentioned above ,......and getting same error...
=> I executed above commands and restarted services...no change...
How to remove / drop ndf file...
Hello,
Does anyone know of a way to remove the first line of characters from a flat file?
Thank you for your help!
cdun2
In tweaking performance of tempdb by adding add'l data files I want to reset back to defaults and remove all add'l files I've created. Â I was not able to do it for most as they were in use, but by starting the server in single-user mode with all other sql services shut off, and using sqlcmd I was able to use the ALTER DATABASE tempdb REMOVE FILE <tempdev#> to remove the files... except for one.
I have also tried using the command:
ALTER DATABASE tempdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = tempdev#, FILENAME = '<new location');
Restarted SQL server, and tried the ALTER DATABASE ... REMOVE FILE again but am always denied with the message that the file can't be removed b/c it's still in use.
I also tried to shrink it with EMPTYFILE but that also fails with the message that a page is a work table page and can't be removed.
I really need to get tempdb back to just one data file but am unable to find a way to remove this last data file.
Log file rotation and cleanup script and how to remove the log file older then x days.
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ami
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We are using log shipping and we would like to remove all transfered and applied journal (in the primary box).
We have the intentionto use a trigger like this :
CREATE TRIGGER del_log
ON log_shipping_plan_history
AFTER INSERT
as
declare
@lastfile nvarchar(256)
SELECT @lastfile=i.last_file
FROM log_shipping_plan_history e INNER JOIN inserted i ON e.sequence_id = i.sequence_id
where i.activity=1
begin
if IF (@lastfile <> NULL)
...
... remove file (using xp_cmd for example...)
...
end
but the problem is that we have only the last file transfered and applied that will be removed
(some time, more that 1 file are applied in one shot ...
see num_files column in log_shipping_plan_history).
Any solution to remove all the files generated before the last one given by the query ?
Any other solutions (sql wizard gives the possiblity to to remove file after a laps of time 1hour, 1day...).
I am looking for the table that contains all the journal files (that we can see when we try to retore a db) ?
Thanks
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egistration_log.ldf')
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Hi all this is my first of most likely many posts.
I am writting a stored proc that will be used on many diffrent named databases and i am setting the database name with a variable. I would like to use this variable in the following situation any clues on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey,
I am trying to give a user permission to change the name of a database.
They are a member of the server role 'secuirtyadmin'
They are a member of the database role 'db_owner'
They have been granted ALTER permission on the database.
But every time I try and run the command
ALTER DATABASE <dbname> MODIFY NAME = <newdbname>
I get an error saying the database doesn't exist or you don't have permissions.
What am I missing?
In DTS/SSIS packages, How do to data validation or check for special characters and remove them at Copy column level.
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Hello,
I have Test database with Log file property Automatically grow the file, option Unrestricted file growth, I wanted to alter it with Restrict file growth upto 200 MB. I'm getting an error that you cannot modify as file doesnot exist
But the file does exist. I cannot figure out what is giving the problem.
below is the sql statements
select name from sysfiles
go
Test_Data
Test_Log
USE master
go
ALTER DATABASE Test MODIFY FILE
( NAME='Test_Log',
MAXSIZE=200MB )
go
ERROR
Server: Msg 5041, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
MODIFY FILE failed. File 'Test_Log' does not exist.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Sejal
Hi
I got the following error
Error: 823, Severity: 24, State: 4
I/O error 33(The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file.) detected during write at offset
0x0000000a796000 in file xxxxxxxxx.ndf'.
and the respective database could not be brought online - this was just due to a problem with a .ndf file containing only indexes...is there any way to connect to/alter a database while it is in this transitional state? (it would be no loss if i could just remove the file & its filegroup)
(i tried starting with -f -c, but no go)
thanks in advance
des