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Ish Fad

Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2011 6:41 PM

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Hi
I am using Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008. It is running on Windows XP Pro, with 10Gig hard disk free space

and 3gig RAM.
I installed SQL Server Express 2008 about one month ago. It was working fine till last night. When I try to

switch on sql server through service. I am getting following error ;
service-specific error code 1814

I am lost here. Why suddently stop working.

Please could some help me. I have working database and I don't want to loose it.

many thanks

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Gaurav Gosain-395499

Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:55 PM

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This error is related to tempdb, SQL Server is not able to allocate space to tempdb.
Do you know where your tempdb resides, if yes check the drive and free up some space.

else if you don't know this then:
At command prompt in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Binn run
sqlservr.exe -c -m -T3608

then open another command prompt run
sqlcmd -A

ALTER DATABASE tempdb
MODIFY FILE (NAME = tempdev, FILENAME = '{new location}\tempdb.mdf');

ALTER DATABASE tempdb
MODIFY FILE (NAME = templog, FILENAME = '{new location}\templog.ldf');

Now stop the cmd shell by ctrl + c
then shutdown the server and start it again in normal way.

If it work then just say thanks. Will wait for your response.

Thanks,
GG Wink

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Ish Fad

Posted Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:26 AM

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Thanks

tempdb.mdf and templog.ldf files is located on my C drive as below.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS2008\MSSQL\DATA

I have 10gig free space on C drive and I have 3 gig RAM on my computer.

So I don't understand, why is the problem creating tempdb.mdf

I would appreciate your help.

Many thanks

Post #1068805

Gaurav Gosain-395499

Posted Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:40 AM

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May be your tempdb need more then fre space so please follow the steps which I have given and also add datafile size to 2MB in alter db command.

Thanks,
GG Wink

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