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Backup very large table

I have to update certain values of a large table (for the sake of a presumed example, it is called 'Resource' and it is over 5M rows) and thus I have to make a backup before performing the changes. We ...
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How to merge data from 2 databases [duplicate]

I have a SQL-Server database that crashed while I was away on vacation. All info from 5/2/13 is missing from our current database because my replacement implemented a back-up of the database from ...
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How to backup databases to ensure data recovery

I have 15 customer databases that have minimum replication at different sites. I currently do nightly back-ups and transfer the database back-up nightly to our main server via 7zip. We recently had ...
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How do I refresh SQL server cross database references after a database is reattached with a different name? (Are there hidden synonyms?)

I have 2 seperate SQL databases on the same SQL instance. Database1 references tables on Database2 in its views and stored procedures. Everything was working fine until we had to create a fresh ...
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Error while taking backup using SSMS

I am using SSMS. I have about 5 logins. For a particular login I have all server roles other than sysadmin. It is a sql login (not windows authentication). In user roles it has all permission for ...
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Which MySQL directories to back up using FTP

My server has been hacked and I only have FTP access to recover my data before reinstalling the OS. Which/where are the directories that needs to be backed up? Will MySQL be recovered back to its ...
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Backup strategies for zero data loss

I am working on one project and it has around 100K records. We can afford a downtime of 1 day but we need the data to be always available to us in latest state. I've gone through two options: 1) ...
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SQL Server - backup / restore schema only (not a duplicate if that's what you're thinking!)

We have a DB on over 100 servers of which we want to backup / restore the structure of just 1 at a time to a specific UAT database. They're all called the same thing but vary in terms of schema - ...
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Restore SQL Server database from .sql files

So we had an encrypted database that puked and killed our whole SQL Server setup. Sucks about our data, but we were smart enough to have our data structures / stored procedures / functions in Git The ...
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Error 9001, Severity: 21, State: 1 The log for database 'DB_NAME' is not available

I have a SQL Server 2008 R2. I got a mail that the backup had failed, I opened the SQL log viewer and started browsing. And i found these two errors a bunch of times. error 1: Date ...
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Backup Only Database Schema Everynight

I have an instance with 15 databases on SQL Server 2012. I will set up to backup system which will work every night. I want to backup only the schema because several databases are very big. I haven't ...
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Backup SQL DataBase to C$

Another simple SQL backup question from me.... I've got a SQL Server database running on SSMS 2008 and am trying to configure some backup jobs. I am now seemingly fine with backing up and restoring ...
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SQL Server backup failing. Error: 3041, Severity: 16, State: 1

First of all, I'm very new at stackexchange, so please bear with me. I'm running a SQL Server 9.0.4060. My problem is: my SQL Server backup keeps failing on a lot of the databases. The Maintenance ...
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SQL Server Transaction Log Initial Data Load

What is the standard process when initially populating a database with 5GB+ to avoid a large transaction log? From my understanding the log file would jump to a large size after the initial load and ...
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How to create a SQL Server 2008 backup without logs with mirroring

How do I create a backup of a SQL Server 2008 in a mirrored setup without any logs? We need to do this so that when we restore our local development databases, we would have the most up to date ...
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On SQL Server Backup: Msg 3271, Level 16, State 1, Server Line 1 A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file

I am trying to back up a pretty big database and I keep getting this error: Msg 3271, Level 16, State 1, Server {Server Name}, Line 1 A nonrecoverable I/O error occurred on file "{Backup File ...
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Script to Restore/Create SQL Server 2000 Database from Another Database's Backup

I'm trying to create a database, NewClientDB, by restoring another database's, OldClientDB, backup, d:...oldclientdb.bak. I've always done this via SQL 2000 Enterprise Manager, but the GUI keeps ...
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Oracle 11g production database copy to USB drive

What is the correct commands for backing up a production Oracle 11g database (while still running) to an external USB drive or different directory. I am new to Oracle and but have experience with SQL ...
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Backup of Postgres database

I want to create a backup of my database in Postgres. I'm using pgAdmin. on my database I have clicked right button of mouse after that I've selected the "Create a backup of database" After that ...
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How do I determine if a database restore file should be restored to the database based on backupset?

I have a production database that is fully backed up nightly and incrementally backed up hourly. On our backup machine, we have the differential backups and full backups restored ion a regular basis ...
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Restore Database script

I have a live database which i would like to create a backup and restore script that will take the "live" database every night, create a back, then drop the existing "testing" database (if any) and ...
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Aborted restoring from back up Sql Server 2008

I started restoring from backup using (WITH REPLACE, RESTORE WITH RECOVERY) and realized that it was a mistake, so I stopped restoring. Now this db is unavailable and has a 'Restoring' status. Can ...
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Backing up SQL DB more frequently

I currently have a scheduled task that fires off each night at 2 AM that calls SQLCMD.exe and passes it a .sql script to run for the backup (shown below). We're a pretty small company with growing ...
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How to create a backup schema script including System Tables in Sql Server 2008 R2?

I need to back up my entire DB including one table that's allocated in "Tables -> System Tables". When I try to generate the sql scripts to back up my DB this table isn't mapped in this scripts. Do I ...
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Sql Anywhere 11: Restoring incremental backup failure

We want to create remote incremental backups after a full backup. This will allow us to restore in the event of a failure and bring up another machine with as close to real time backups as possible ...