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Posted Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:09 AM
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when backup is taken can anyone tell me as to what exactly happens in the background
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Why do you want to know? What problem are you investigating?
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newbie wanting to understand sql
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Well, at a high level, all used data pages read from the data file and written into the backup file. That's the core. It's a bit of a simplification, but good enough.
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What means "used pages"? Can you please clarify. Thanks
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Yuri55 (10/14/2012)
What means "used pages"? Can you please clarify. Thanks
used means the pages which contain data .
refer this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175477(v=sql.90).aspx
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What means "used pages"? Can you please clarify. Thanks
used means the pages which contain data .
refer this link
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175477(v=sql.90).aspx
Make sense, thanks
What does not make sense though (probably I am missing something
)- let say you backup DB1 with 50% Available free space (from Shrink DB task you can see this number). Then you restore DB2 from this backup and I guess (saw it many times) that DB1 and DB2 have same size (not 50% less I mean). Why is this- because pages were not completely free on DB1 and therefore were backed up? Thanks
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Because restoring a backup always recreates the database exactly as it was at the time the backup was taken.
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Sorry Gail but IMO it does not sound logical- if during backup only used (with data) pages are written to backup file then restored DB should have only such pages (i.e. with data only and no empty pages), i.e. can be different from original one? Or am I missing somethng? Thanks
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The backup file (the .bak) contains only the pages (actually extents) that are allocated to objects. There's no point in backing up empty space.
The restored database must however be exactly the same as the database that was backed up. If the source database had 50% free space, so will the restored DB. How would SQL tell cases where that 50% free space is desired and required from cases where is is not? It can't just assume that the free space can be removed (and, infact doing so could be a huge problem, it would essentially be doing a shrink after every restore, horrible)
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