Sql server when rebuild index table hard disk size 0 - sql

I've got a major problem
I tried to rebuild index a table with 300M records
I've had 100GB Free storage
when the process was ongoing free space has gone to 0 and the rebuild stucked
Now I can't access any data on this specific table
(the sql log file size seems as the table was before)
Anyone has a suggestion what should I do to fix this issue?

I've shrink the database logile and from almost 700GB it shrinked to nothing.
somehow the table had data again probably it resumed the reindexing after doing that.
Back to normal

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Index corruption on large table

I have a large table with around 123 million records in cratedb. I noticed that during a snapshot to s3 (or indeed to file system) an index corruption occurs on each shard. Consequently this causes a partial snapshot. Once crate is restarted the table doesn't load on the account that there is a corrupted index. I have to remove the corrupted file and a file lock from the index folder and table heals. I have tried to recreate tables by moving everything to another table and swapping (using alter cluster command) but the corruption still occurs on the new table as well.
Is there anything else I can try to fully snapshot the cluster and avoid corruption?
Crate team found a bug https://github.com/crate/crate/pull/9318
Resolved in 4.0.8

Why will my SQL Transaction log file not auto-grow?

The Issue
I've been running a particularly large query, generating millions of records to be inserted into a table. Each time I run the query I get an error reporting that the transaction log file is full.
I've managed to get a test query to run with a reduced set of results and by using SELECT INTO instead of INSERT into as pre built table. This reduced set of results generated a 20 gb table, 838,978,560 rows.
When trying to INSERT into the pre built table I've also tried using it with and without a Cluster index. Both failed.
Server Settings
The server is running SQL Server 2005 (Full not Express).
The dbase being used is set to SIMPLE for recovery and there is space available (around 100 gb) on the drive that the file is sitting on.
The transaction log file setting is for File Growth of 250 mb and to a maximum of 2,097,152 mb.
The log file appears to grow as expected till it gets to 4729 mb.
When the issue first appeared the file grow to a lower value however i've reduced the size of other log files on the same server and this appears to allow this transaction log file grow further by the same amount as the reduction on the other files.
I've now run out of ideas of how to solve this. If anyone has any suggestion or insight into what to do it would be much appreciated.
First, you want to avoid auto-growth whenever possible; auto-growth events are HUGE performance killers. If you have 100GB available why not change the log file size to something like 20GB (just temporarily while you troubleshoot this). My policy has always been to use 90%+ of the disk space allocated for a specific MDF/NDF/LDF file. There's no reason not to.
If you are using SIMPLE recovery SQL Server is supposed manage the task of returning unused space but sometimes SQL Server does not do a great job. Before running your query check the available free log space. You can do this by:
right-click the DB > go to Tasks > Shrink > Files.
change the type to "Log"
This will help you understand how much unused space you have. You can set "Reorganize pages before releasing unused space > Shrink File" to 0. Moving forward you can also release unused space using CHECKPOINT; this may be something to include as a first step before your query runs.

Moving data from one table to another in Sql Server 2005

I am moving around 10 million data from one table to another in SQL Server 2005. The Purpose of Data transfer is to Offline the old data.
After some time it throws an error Description: "The LOG FILE FOR DATABASE 'tempdb' IS FULL.".
My tempdb and templog is placed in a drive (other than C drive) which has around 200 GB free. Also my tempdb size in database is set to 25 GB.
As per my understanding I will have to increase the size of tempdb from 25 GB to 50 GB and set the log file Auto growth portion to "unrestricted file growth (MB)".
Please let me know other factors and I cannot experiment much as I am working on Production database so can you please let me know if they changes will have some other impact.
Thanks in Advance.
You know the solution. Seems you are just moving part of data to make your queries faster.
I am agree with your solution
As per my understanding I will have to increase the size of tempdb from 25 GB to 50 GB and set the log file Auto growth portion to "unrestricted file growth (MB)".
Go ahead
My guess is that you're trying to move all of the data in a single batch; can you break it up into smaller batches, and commit fewer rows as you insert? Also, as noted in the comments, you may be able to set your destination database to SIMPLE or BULK-INSERT mode.
Why are you using Log file at all? Copy your data (Data and Logfile) then set the mode on SIMPLE and run the transfer again.

Database taking up way more space than tables combined

I have a database that's taking up nearly 7 gigs. If I look at the table usage, it should be much less than that, like 40 megs. There was a large log table that I deleted yesterday, but my database still says it's very large.
Here are the stats:
database_name database_size unallocated space
Umbraco_Indoorpower 6911.56 MB 859.59 MB
reserved data index_size unused
31144 KB 26272 KB 3240 KB 1632 KB
I ran this:
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (umbraco_indoorpower, 99);
And that got my database down to 2.3 gigs. Still though, way too large.
database_name database_size unallocated space
Umbraco_Indoorpower 2302.44 MB 1.63 MB
reserved data index_size unused
30016 KB 26200 KB 3240 KB 576 KB
I'm guessing I'm not freeing up all the space from that log table that I deleted yesterday. I actual ran delete from tblLog. Maybe that was the wrong way to go about it.
Does anyone know how I can free up some more space?
How big is the log file? What is your recovery model? It's quite possible that the database_size number above is nearly 7 GB of log and very little data. Find the files on your hard drive - you can locate the paths using:
EXEC umbraco_indoorpower..sp_helpfile;
I am going to bet that the LDF is HUGE and the MDF is actually small. In which case you are probably in FULL recovery model and have never taken a log backup. If this is true then you can do this:
USE umbraco_indoorpower;
GO
BACKUP LOG umbraco_indoorpower TO DISK = 'C:\some_path\umbraco.trn';
GO
DBCC SHRINKFILE(umbraco_indoorpower_log, 20); -- guessing on target MB size here
(If you are in simple recovery model, the above will fail, but there will be some other explanation why the log file is large - e.g. a long-running or uncommitted transaction, did your delete commit?)
Then you will want to either (a) set up proper maintenance, including full/diff/log backups, which will help make optimal reuse of the log file, or (b) switch to simple recovery, in which case the log will manage itself.
In most cases simple recovery does not provide enough protection in the event of a disaster, but that is for you to decide.
In the meantime, you can shrink the file all you want, but if you keep your recovery model and transaction handling the way it is, you'll just be seeing your file grow again and you'll be back tomorrow running the shrink command. This is absolutely horrible for your files. This is why I object to answers like "Run a shrink operation." I talk about why here:
Oh, the horror! Please stop telling people they should shrink their log files!
http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/08/stop-shrinking-your-database-files-seriously-now/
In any case, you have data and log, and for the log to be shrunk, you would have to have made a backup.
Edit: Everything Aaron said
The existing answers are already pretty good. I have one additional solution: Script the database including data (the SSMS UI allows you to do this easily) and execute the script in a fresh database.
You maybe want to switch to simple log model, too (if you don't have a special need for using the full logging model). One thing is for sure: You can't run in full mode and not have proper transaction log management.
Another thing that can take up more space in SQL Server is Service Broker queues. In my case I have 6 million rows in queues taking up 17GB...

table size not reducing after purged table

I recently perform a purging on my application table. total record of 1.1 millions with the disk space used 11.12GB.
I had deleted 860k records and remain 290k records, but why my space used only drop to 11.09GB?
I monitor the detail on report - disk usage - disk space used by data files - space used.
Is it that i need to perfrom shrink data file? This has been puzzle me long time.
For MS SQL Server, rebuild the clustered indexes.
You have only deleted rows: not reclaimed space.
DBCC DBREINDEX or ALTER INDEX ... WITH REBUILD depending on verison
(It's MS SQL because the disk space report is in SSMS)
You need to explicitly call some operation (specific to your database management system) that will shrink the data file. The database engine doesn't shrink the file when you delete records, that's for optimization purposes - shrinking is time-consuming.
I think this is like with mail folders in Thunderbird: If you delete something, it's just marked as deleted, but to get higher performance, the space isn't freed. So most of your 11.09 GB will now contain either your old data or 0's. Shrink data file will "compress" (or "clean") this by creating a new file that'll only contain the actual data that is left.
Probably you need to shrink the table. I know that SQL server doesn't do it by default for you, I would guess this is for reasons of performance, maybe other DBs are the same.