Showing posts with label couple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label couple. Show all posts

Friday, March 9, 2012

Log Explorer vs. ApexSQL Log vs. SQL Log-Rescue

Opinions?

I've installed all three to try'em out and they all seem to be working
so far, more or less.

Log Explorer has given me a couple of errors but I started over and
continued OK.

ApexSQL Log squawked about "redo for delete cannot be generated for
tables lacking clustered index". Huh? What the...? We have lots of
tables without a clustered index.

I read some reports in Red-Gate's technical support forum about their
product actually bringing down SQL Server. That did not inspire
confidence.

All three install some server-side components like extended stored
proc's which I'm not crazy about and I think all three are server or
instance licensed (does anyone actually purchase more than one license
when it seems like you can easily move any tran log to be analyzed to
the server the product is installed on?). I don't think I'd want to
install any of them on a Production server, at least one that I'm
responsible for!

Thanks,

MartinMartin (mvirta@.olgc.ca) writes:
> ApexSQL Log squawked about "redo for delete cannot be generated for
> tables lacking clustered index". Huh? What the...? We have lots of
> tables without a clustered index.

Probably the people at ApexSQL are like me: they think that every table
should have a clustered index.

If nothing else, fragmentation is easier to keep in check, if you have
a clustered index.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

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Monday, February 20, 2012

locks preventing backup of database

The database is configured for single publisher, many subscribers,
merge replication. The maintenance plan started to fail a couple of
months ago and the database would not get backed up. After clearing
all the locks, I am able to backup the database manually. The locks
return again and I'm not able to backup the database with the
maintenance plan. How can I get around the lock issue or solve it so
that I can backup the database again?

Thanks,
Chris"cloverme" <ads4sms@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fe5c75a8.0401071659.5b96ba2c@.posting.google.c om...
> The database is configured for single publisher, many subscribers,
> merge replication. The maintenance plan started to fail a couple of
> months ago and the database would not get backed up. After clearing
> all the locks, I am able to backup the database manually. The locks
> return again and I'm not able to backup the database with the
> maintenance plan. How can I get around the lock issue or solve it so
> that I can backup the database again?

How are you trying to back it up? I've never seen locks prevent a db
backup.

> Thanks,
> Chris