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help with best practice of merging sql databases

Bad news, our website server (windows 2003) crashed because of dead RAID controller. Luckily few hours later our backup server was up and website was live again. Hopefully tomorrow our original ...
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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 shrink the physical Transaction Log file when it's the principal in a mirror?

We setup database mirroring over the weekend, and forgot to re-enable the job that backs up the transaction logs. When I came in this morning, the transaction log had ballooned to 58GB, and was taking ...
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Backups script completes, but doesn't back up all dbs

I'm running sql server 2005 and I've made a simple backup script that backs up all the databases on one server. The script always succeeds, but when I go to check the log or the files, I see it has ...
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Process attempted to unlock a resource it does not own

SQL Server 2005 SP4 32-Bit I have a DBCC CHECKDB job running nightly. Last night, soon after the job started, I got the errors below. The database is NOT in suspect mode, and CHECKDB comes back clean ...
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SQL Server 2005 Unexpected Disk Usage during Backups [closed]

On our SQL Server 2005 SP4 server we have a maintenance plan in place which performs a full backup of selected databases on a nightly basis. The databases are configured in Simple recovery mode and ...
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Restoring a differential backup in SQL server 2005

I have created a full back up of my database by executing the line below in my application: Dim Query As String = "backup database Ari to disk='G:\Documents and Settings\i\Desktop\BKAR\" & ...
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Restoring a differential backup in SQL server 2005 [duplicate]

I have created a full back up of my database by executing the line below in my application: Dim Query As String = "backup database Ari to disk='G:\Documents and Settings\i\Desktop\BKAR\" & ...
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Is it OK to use WITH INIT for my Transaction Log Backup to avoid having it grow too large?

I'm still struggling to understand SQL's backup jobs. We currently have a SQL Server 2005 instance using the FULL recovery model. We do a full database backup every week. BACKUP DATABASE ...
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Performance impact of Splitting Table across files

EDIT: I think the original question (below) was not worded very well, and probably caused confusion. The basic question is: If I have a SQL Server 2005 database using a single .mdf file and I change ...
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How can I backup a large SQL Server database without impacting performance?

We've had reports of queries running slowly or timing out early in the morning, and the only job I see running that I think could affect this is our database backup job. The database itself is about ...
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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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Backup to three drives suddenly slow

The situation: I have a 1.3 TB Database (SQL 2005) that I am currently backing up to 2 network shares on separate machines and on one local USB. (Don't ask why - long story involving a DBA that quit ...
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Can I Run Two Full Backups on SQL Server 2005 at the Same Time?

Running SQL Server Express 2005 here. We are creating several programs which run a backup on the database using Server Management Objects (SMO) mostly through C# (.NET). We have separate processes ...
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Taking backup of all the databases in SQL Server

I have a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 DB server. In the DB server, I have around 250 user databases. I have to take a back up of all these databases. Since, manually taking backup consumes lot of time, 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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Is it imperative that I backup my index files?

I have a few different instances (SQL 2000, 2005) with indexes placed in a separate filegroup. Do i need to ensure that this group is backed up, or will it be rebuilt by a restore of of the database?
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Do I really need to keep .LDF files?

Each month we make an end of month snapshot of our production databse. These month end snapshots are strictly for reporting purposes, there are no inserts, updates or deletes ever done on them. Each ...
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SQL Backups - Full vs Differential vs Log Shipping

I'm looking to refine our SQL backups utilizing Full, Differential, and Log Shipping. Currently, I am only performing full backups once at night. This process is taking so long that it is running ...
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Backup database and clean old backup question

Right now we have a maintenance plan which looks like this: backup all databases clean old backups (> 24 hours) This job runs every day. Every now and then this script crashes during backup step ...
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Move (Restore) SQL Server 2005 database which does not exist before

I did not ready about this but found out after trying to restore a database from remote server and it wont restore if the database did not exist before. What I would do is create a .bak file ...
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Can I move a system database from one version of SQL server to another?

We are moving our databases from one computer running SQL Server 2005 to a different machine running SQL Server 2008. I am following the steps found here, in an attempt to copy over the master ...
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Database growth causing issues sending backup over network

We take a full database backup on our primary SQL Server, and send that file over our network to a remote site where it is recovered on a backup SQL Server. We use this backup database for slow ...
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How can I recover data from the LDF file?

We are using SQL 2005 Express Edition. We want to read the data from the LDF file in order to restore some deleted records. We tried using a trial version of ApexSQL which helped us a lot. Instead of ...
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BACKUP failed to complete - with spaces, for no reason

Every day my database backup fails for some databases and does fine for others. I'm calling the backup through a Stored Procedure that runs scheduled in a job. Tonight I'm going to run the procedure ...
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Back up and restore to main system

I have a software system running in my office with MS SQL Server in back end.I want to backup the database daily and delete all data from database so that only one-day data will be in the database at ...
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Maintenance Plan fails but the query it generates Runs

I have an SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition whose Maintenance plan fails constantly with the error: backup MYSERVER (MYSERVER) Backup Database on MYSERVER Databases that have a compatibility level ...
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How often do you back up the distribution database for transactional replication when sync with backup is set to true for the distribution database?

I'm trying to figure out how often to back up the distribution database when "sync with backup" is set to true. If I understand this correctly, sync with backup ensures the distribution database can ...
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Copy database schema from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2005 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Downgrading from SQL Server 2008 to 2005 Is it possible to copy the database schema from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2005, I don't need data from the tables, just ...
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Is it possible to restore sql-server bak and shrink the log at the same time?

We have a bak file from a client that we have transferred to our developer offices for problem investigation. The backup is currently 25GB and the restored database is about the same size however it ...
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Unable to BackUp Database on SQL2005

I have a database in MS SQL2005 that I can not backup. Whenever I try to create a backup of the selected database through SQL Mgm studio I get this error: The Backup of full-text catalog in not ...
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Backup Compression in SQL Server 2005

I noticed that simply zipping my backup files reduces the space used by 70% My idea was to, initially, backup the databases to a local server; then, using Bacula or Cobian (I don't have a budget), ...
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Is it possible to backup and restore part of a database in sql-server?

We have a sql-server 2005 database that we regularly transfer from our client site to ours. This takes a long time because we don't have a direct connection and have to transfer the file over their ...
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SQL server 2005 SP4 differential backup is failing

We have an SQL server 2005 with SP4, x86. When we attempt to take the differential backup, we are getting the following error message. Cannot perform a differential backup for database "ABCD", ...
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SQL server 2005 backup statistic

I'd like to share with you this simple snippet (answering my own question) and I'm also curious how do you control your SQL server backups.
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What is not persisted in a database backup / restore? (SQL Server 2005)

If I take a backup of a database on a SQL 2005 Server, and then restore that backup to a different (new) database on the same database server instance, what things will not be persisted (things like ...
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Can I restore a database to a point of time without backup?

I have an SQL 2005 database with logging set to FULL but without any backups. Is it possible to restore it to a point of time?