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Mh-397891
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Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 9:08 AM
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Hi, the Recovery model of the database keeps changing to Simple which results in the failure of the transaction log backup jobs. I am trying to find out how's it's getting changed, any ideas are appreciated. Thanks!!
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Greg Charles
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Is it a user database or a system database? What was the recovery model when the database was created?
Greg
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Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 10:36 AM
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Keep in mind that the reason it "fails" is that there's ultimately nothing to back up in Simple mode. since the transaction log automatically truncates as soon as the activity is committed - there's nothing retained long enough for it to get backed up.
Perhaps it's not such a bad thing: could be perfectly appropriate depending on the purpose of said database.
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Greg Charles (2/8/2008)
Is it a user database or a system database? What was the recovery model when the database was created?
It's a user db, I do'nt know the recovery model when the db was created. Thanks for the speedy response.
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Greg Charles
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Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:12 PM
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I've never heard of a database spontaneously change recovery models. I'd say that either the database is being restored from a backup made when the recovery model was simple or an Alter Database command is being executed by a member of sysadmin or db_owner.
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Greg Charles (2/13/2008)
I've never heard of a database spontaneously change recovery models. I'd say that either the database is being restored from a backup made when the recovery model was simple or an Alter Database command is being executed by a member of sysadmin or db_owner.
I checked all the sql jobs in that server I can't find any where about the altering of the db to simple. And also it's really wierd that it's happening to only one db out of 20 db's. And that db belongs to Desktop authority application, I do'nt think that application is changing the db to simple, Thanks for all the responses.
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I have a couple more ideas. Changing the recovery model should be logged in the Windows Server Application log. Look in Event Viewer to see if there's a user or application related to the change.
You could run a Profiler trace to capture actions in the database. If the change always seems to occur at a particular time (like at night), you wouldn't have to run the trace very long.
Greg
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Is the db a reporting or read only db? Is the db restored on a nightly basis from some other source?....I only mention this because I have seen this behavior with on of my dbs. The source db is set to simple, recovering the backup to the reporting system changes the destination from full recovery back to simple.
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Greg Charles (2/14/2008)
I have a couple more ideas. Changing the recovery model should be logged in the Windows Server Application log. Look in Event Viewer to see if there's a user or application related to the change.
You could run a Profiler trace to capture actions in the database. If the change always seems to occur at a particular time (like at night), you wouldn't have to run the trace very long.
Here is information below from the event viewer:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: MSSQLSERVER
Event Category: (2)
Event ID: 17055
Date: 2/10/2008
Time: 1:01:21 AM
User: username
Computer: server
Description:
5144 :
Autogrow of file 'DB_log' in database 'DB' cancelled or timed out after 0 ms. Use ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH or to set a new size
I think this might have caused it to change to Simple, but how can I fix this issue. Thanks!!
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Donn Polix
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You can also check the db datecreated if it's recent, you'll have an idea when the database just got restored.
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