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Shortest method to upload database to server

I have a SQL Server script file which ranges size of 3gb and I am in need to upload the script file to an external server. i generated script for my 6gb database by following these steps ...
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Automated SQL backup on a timely fashion, & cleaup the database for the backed up data

I need to back up SQL database (historian), on a timely fashion, and then clean up the database by removing the backed up data. I am using MS SQL 2008 (R2), on a Windows XP machine. The biggest issue ...
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How to tell what's failing at making backups?

I have an instance of SQL server that is regularly getting errors like this: 02/25/2013 23:22:38,spid138,Unknown,BackupVirtualDeviceFile::SendFileInfoBegin: failure on backup device ...
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Is it possible to have a valid backupset with null position?

In database restore process I need to rely on position column exists in backupset record to restore the latest backupset. Restore the latest backup on the database I noticed sometimes position is ...
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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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Restore only one datafile in SQL Server 2008 from partitioned database

We have a partitioned database that I'd like to get copied over on a semi-regular basis to another server for testing updates. Since the partitioning is based on a date column, the most current data ...
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Advice about Backup Solution

Our database Server is being hosted by another company. They provide a file level backup that occurs once per day. They also allow for Log Shipping. My company is taking advantage of their ...
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Restore a Database to a New database (T-SQL)

I have a database backup from a database, say SourceData which needs to be restored on another database, same schema, but different name (SourceData_1) using T-SQL. I don't know why I gets the ...
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How to prevent SQL Log from being too full

I have a database that generate a huge amount of transaction per seconds, something like 50-100 transactions/second. Because of this, the log files grows very quickly. The thing is though, that even ...
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Error in SSMS when attempting to restore a database

We have over a dozen SQL servers, one of which hosts a couple of hundred sage databases, when i right-click on the Databases node in SSMS there is a long delay then i get the following error (and the ...
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Restore all applicable files in a backup device in T-SQL

I'm using SQL Server (2008 R2 in this case) and I am backing up my databases into backup devices (one per database). Every Sunday the device is overwritten with a new full backup, every night a ...
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Set Backup Compression on SQL Server 2008R2 on by default

I can't seem to find the option to set the server property that will enable compression on SQL database backup to be ON by default, so I don't have to manually set it every time. Ca anyone point me ...
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How to automatically regularly a week backup SQL Server database if changes exist in the database for the previous week

I´m new to SQL Server administration. I´d like to create automatically backup database every sunday night, if there was any change in previous week (if not, backup is unnecessary). Is there some way ...
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SQL Server considerations when backing up / restoring a database that uses replication

In the event that I need to restore a database involved in replication, what considerations to I need to keep in mind? Do I need to keep backups of both the publisher and the subscriber? Can I ...
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SQL database backups methods-tools-procedures

Currently, I am investigating some way to more efficiently backup 4 Production SQL Databases (3 different servers/instances) and would like to know if anyone else has had the problems we are having ...
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Performing data update operations while backing up a large SQL Server database

I have a large (in the tens of millions of records) database that I am going to perform a full database backup on. However, the database is large enough that transactions can start before and during, ...
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In trying to setup back up device, net use command throws operating system error 53 when passing in a unc

So I'm trying to use XP_CMDSHELL to set up my drive for using a backup. I already have the drive mapped, but per ...
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When you back up a database and scripts are running at the same time, at what point in time does the backup reflect?

If I run a SQL Server database backup via Management Studio and there are scripts running at the same time, does the backup reflect the point in time when the backup was started or when it ended? My ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Query Last Successful Database Backup For All DBs

Is it possible to query the last successful backup date (and perhaps the type of backup) of each database in SQL Sever 2008 R2?
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I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds

Usually our weekly full backups finish in about 35 minutes, with daily diff backups finishing in ~5 minutes. Since tuesday the dailies have taken almost 4 hours to complete, way more than should be ...
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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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why user with db_owner & db_BackupOperator database role is unable to restore database?

I'm in sysadmin server role on the server . All Programmers are in dbCreator Server role , So they can create databases for themselves and they have in db_owner & db_Backupoperator database role ...
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How to delete a Backup from a backup set in SQL Server 2008 R2

The title pretty much sums it up. We are running out of space on our backup disks, and need to remove old backups out of the set. I can't seem to find any information on this.
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Is command BACKUP asynchronous operation

I got strange delays when backed up a group of databases (20 more) in one scope (TSQL) to the same file location. Is it possible that multiple backup operations are running at the same time? I have ...
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How often to backup the master database?

The suggestion in BOL is fairly vague: Back up master as often as necessary to protect the data sufficiently for your business needs. We recommend a regular backup schedule, which you can ...
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Should I stop transaction log backups during a full backup?

I have two SQL Agent jobs which are scheduled to run at different intervals. The first job runs a full backup once a day. The second job runs transaction log backups every fifteen minutes. As the ...