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If you are a DBA and if you ever hear about drive space full issues on the SQL Server machine, the first thought to come to your mind would be “huge transaction log file”. Recently I have also fallen into the same trap. One of my clients contacted me and informed that they are running out of drive space on C Drive.

I looked around and found that the transaction log files were located on a different drive and the size of them was not huge.I downloaded and found that most of the space C drive was taken by SQLDUMP files. I was wondering what is the SQL Dump file for?As you can see in the animation, the dumps were getting generated at a rapid rate. In general, stack dumps are a serious problem.

Dumps indicate that something is not working as expected in SQL Server and forcing SQL to either terminate the process or terminate itself. Each dump had three files generated. Out of them text and log were readable, but mdmp needs a special tool (windows debugger) to read it.

Here is what I saw in the files which were readable.SQLDump9999.txt. BEGIN STACK DUMP:. 10/16/15 19:28:15 spid 22. exraise2: Exception raised, major=52, minor=42, state=9, severity=22.Above exception major=52, minor=42 is equal to error number 5242. I have used below query to find meaning. SELECT.FROM sys.messagesWHERE messageid = 5242AND languageid = 1033An inconsistency was detected during an internal operation in database ‘%.ls'(ID:%d) on page%SPGID.

Please contact technical support.This means that there is inconsistency or corruption in the database. Now the question was which database?

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So, I captured Profiler and found the message having database name. When we ran DBCC CHECKDB on the database, it reported corruption.CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 420 consistency errors in database ‘SAPDB’.repairallowdataloss is the minimum repair level for the errors found by DBCC CHECKDB (SAPDB).Since, they had a last known very recent good backup, I asked them to restore rather than running repairallowdataloss.Have you ever had such situation where log directory has too many dump file and got your drive space full? What was the cause and what you did to fix it?Reference: Pinal Dave ( ). Hi Pinal,Thank you for being so consistent in sharing your knowledge and helping all of us to learn and grow!!As the database corruption seems not to be so small, did you get chance to figure out what caused corruption?

Can I Delete Sql Dump Files

I know taking tail log back is recommended in such cases, I am not sure how it can be of help?I mean some chuck of data got corrupted and column value for a row got changed from 10 to 20 or some garbage value – SQL Server would record old and last value in the log file and my guess is it won’t do any checks. In that case, restoring tail log back would worsen the situation.I have misunderstood some thing – Appreciate if you could you please me in getting clarity on tail log back up.Thank you.Br,Anil KumarSQL DBA. Recently we had Prod Db failure on our environment i can see.mdmp files were created in the Error Log directory when i was running CheckDB and finding corruption.

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I want to set up a SQL Alert which will notify me whenever a new mdmp file or SQLDUMP.txt is created, can you please help me that how should i set it up. I looked everywhere but couldnt find anything.While setting up SQL Alert i need to give combination of Error Number/Severity or Message text if i now but looking SQL Server Error logs i dont see any Error Number or Severity which i can use so please suggest how can i setup automated Alerts to check if new Dump file was created on my environmentThanks in Advance. Pinal Dave is a SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and an independent consultant. He has authored 12 SQL Server database books, 30 Pluralsight courses and has written over 5000 articles on the database technology on his blog at a Along with 16+ years of hands on experience he holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of database certifications.For any send an email at pinal@sqlauthority.com.Pinal is also a and.Nupur Dave is a social media enthusiast and an independent consultant.

To ensure the safety of your data, it’s essential to have a maintenance plan in place to perform regular (preferably nightly) backups of the vault database and the ConisioMasterDB database. Can be set up for SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional using the SQL Server Agent included in Microsoft SQL Standard.Note: does NOT include the SQL Server Agent so this method does not work for PDM Standard vaults.However over time those backups will take up a great deal of hard drive space if they are not cleaned up and removed. This process can also be automated by the SQL Server Agent. Steps to removing Old SQL Database BackupsStep 1: Ensure that the SQL Server Agent service is running. Launch the SQL Server Configuration Manager program and check that the SQL Server Agent is currently running, if it isn’t right click the Agent and click Start.