Re: TDP for SQL: does the id absolutely require SA priv?

2005-08-25 Thread Leonard, Christopher A
I would guess that the TDP account for SQL Server just has to be a member of the db_backupoperator role in each database. Once you give it this role in each database (including model) it will automatically have this role in any new database (because new databases start off as copies of model). Ho

Re: Multiple SQL Instances through the TDP

2005-06-18 Thread Leonard, Christopher A
Del said... > Maybe some subscribers on this list with this SQL Server configuration > will share what they have done in their environment? We don't currently have many SQL Servers that are multi-instance, but here's what we've done on the ones that are. So far it seems to work just fine. We cap

Re: Backing up a 150GB Oracle DB on a datawarehouse server

2005-03-29 Thread Leonard, Christopher A
Not to nitpick, but you'd be better off putting the tablespaces into backup mode one at a time in your shell script, because Oracle has to do additional (larger) logging when a tablespace is in backup mode. Basically it has to log OS block images instead of DB page or data images. Anyway, if you h

Re: SQL database restore question

2004-08-27 Thread Leonard, Christopher
tadata supplies the file location that will be used by a restore unless you override that specific file's location with the /RELOCATE and /TO clauses. Make sense? Hope so. :o) -Chris _ From: Moses Show [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 9:23 AM To: Leonard, Chr

Re: SQL database restore question

2004-08-27 Thread Leonard, Christopher
Moses, Your metadata shows the following 6 files: 3 data files named DWH_Data, DWH_1_Data, and DWH_2_Data and 3 log files named DWH_Log, DWHPROD_Log, and DWHPROD_Log1. However, your TDPSQLC RESTORE command is only relocating two of them, DWH_Data and DWH_Log. Therefore, the other 4 files are tr

Re: Restoring an SQL database

2004-08-18 Thread Leonard, Christopher
Hi Moses, The way I do this is as follows. First of all, we use PasswordAccess=Prompt in our dsm.opt. If it's possible to do this using Generate, I'd appreciate somebody chiming in, because I could not figure that out. Having said that, assume that I want to restore a backup made from MSSQLA on

Re: Restoring SQL Database Question

2004-08-18 Thread Leonard, Christopher
Jeff, I didn't see anybody reply with anything better than what I know, so I thought I'd chime in. To do this, you will need to use TDPSQLC to query the TSM database for /ALL backups - not just the active ones. For example, "tdpsqlc query tsm mydatabase /all". Then you need to parse the output,

Re: ADSM-L Digest - 1 Aug 2004 to 2 Aug 2004 (#2004-204)

2004-08-03 Thread Leonard, Christopher
Thanks Del. I will try to do just that. The number of SQL Server instances and databases we have, plus the hardware we currently have available (not to mention the admistrative issues associated with restoring from one SQL Server node onto another in sqltdp!) make doing "actual" restores of each

TDP for SQL - VERIFYONLY?

2004-07-31 Thread Leonard, Christopher
As long as I'm posting, here's a question for Del. There is one glaring omission in the TDP client for SQL Server, namely the lack of any command that would expose Microsoft's RESTORE VERIFYONLY command. This command saves tons of time in verifying backups, since it greatly simplifies the process

TDP SQL errors backing up SQLSERVER Cluster on Windows2003

2004-07-31 Thread Leonard, Christopher
I am a SQL-Head (as Mark so elegantly put it), and one with more experience than most. The fact that the DBAs can do a backup from SQL Enterprise Manager (or whatever) does *not* prove that this is not a SQL Server error. It may, sadly, give substantial evidence that they are stubborn or relative

Re: TDP for MSSQL 5.2.1 performance issues and questions.

2004-07-01 Thread Leonard, Christopher
John, This may not help you right now, but in case you're wanting to throw SQL Server out the Window because of this "feature," I thought I'd mention that this will change in SQL Server 2005. As others have mentioned, SQL Server 2000 (and prior) must initialize all of the database pages before pr