How to remove a registered Server ?

We have removed an old SQL Server from our network.
However in Enterprise Manager, the Server is still
listed. The status is "SQL Serve does not exist".
We would like to know how can we remove it from the list.
This is because when we attempt to select it and click the
right hand button of the mouse, there is no response in
Enterprise Manager.
Thank you for your help.
To remove a registered server running SQL Server:
1.Expand a server group, and then right-click a server.
2.Click Delete SQL Server Registration.
3.Confirm the deletion.
You might have to wait a while to get a response (context window to
open), if u have a slow/overloaded PC and/or network
|||Another alternative could also be to delete the registry entry for that
specific server. If you go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server\80\Tools\SQLEW\Registered Servers X , you can finde your server and
delete the key.
I often find that when the server isn't available, it takes quite some time
before you get the "Delete" option when you right-click on the server in EM.
I agree with naz that it's the best way to delete it, but the registry key
deletion will also do the trick.
Regards
Steen
naz wrote:
> To remove a registered server running SQL Server:
> 1.Expand a server group, and then right-click a server.
> 2.Click Delete SQL Server Registration.
> 3.Confirm the deletion.
> You might have to wait a while to get a response (context window to
> open), if u have a slow/overloaded PC and/or network

How to remove a registered Server ?

We have removed an old SQL Server from our network.
However in Enterprise Manager, the Server is still
listed. The status is "SQL Serve does not exist".
We would like to know how can we remove it from the list.
This is because when we attempt to select it and click the
right hand button of the mouse, there is no response in
Enterprise Manager.
Thank you for your help.To remove a registered server running SQL Server:
1.Expand a server group, and then right-click a server.
2.Click Delete SQL Server Registration.
3.Confirm the deletion.
You might have to wait a while to get a response (context window to
open), if u have a slow/overloaded PC and/or network|||Another alternative could also be to delete the registry entry for that
specific server. If you go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL
Server\80\Tools\SQLEW\Registered Servers X , you can finde your server and
delete the key.
I often find that when the server isn't available, it takes quite some time
before you get the "Delete" option when you right-click on the server in EM.
I agree with naz that it's the best way to delete it, but the registry key
deletion will also do the trick.
Regards
Steen
naz wrote:
> To remove a registered server running SQL Server:
> 1.Expand a server group, and then right-click a server.
> 2.Click Delete SQL Server Registration.
> 3.Confirm the deletion.
> You might have to wait a while to get a response (context window to
> open), if u have a slow/overloaded PC and/or network

How to remove a registered Server ?

We have removed an old SQL Server from our network.
However in Enterprise Manager, the Server is still
listed. The status is "SQL Serve does not exist".
We would like to know how can we remove it from the list.
This is because when we attempt to select it and click the
right hand button of the mouse, there is no response in
Enterprise Manager.
Thank you for your help.To remove a registered server running SQL Server:
1.Expand a server group, and then right-click a server.
2.Click Delete SQL Server Registration.
3.Confirm the deletion.
You might have to wait a while to get a response (context window to
open), if u have a slow/overloaded PC and/or network|||Another alternative could also be to delete the registry entry for that
specific server. If you go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Mi
crosoft SQL
Server\80\Tools\SQLEW\Registered Servers X , you can finde your server and
delete the key.
I often find that when the server isn't available, it takes quite some time
before you get the "Delete" option when you right-click on the server in EM.
I agree with naz that it's the best way to delete it, but the registry key
deletion will also do the trick.
Regards
Steen
naz wrote:
> To remove a registered server running SQL Server:
> 1.Expand a server group, and then right-click a server.
> 2.Click Delete SQL Server Registration.
> 3.Confirm the deletion.
> You might have to wait a while to get a response (context window to
> open), if u have a slow/overloaded PC and/or networksql

How to recover SQL Server database from suspect status

One of the database in our SQL Server 2000 environment is in the suspect status. We need to bring it back to the normal status.

The problem occurred because the disk on which the data file and log file for this database were placed ran out of space.

Pls note other databases in the same server are working fine.
Later on more space was made available on this disk. We tried the following options but with no success.

1. Reset the status of database and restarted the SQL Server. After restarting the SQL Server, the database once again was showing the suspect status.
2. Used the same data and log file in another SQL Server and attached with the database in this another SQL Server.
3. Tried dbcc chkdb with repair_allow_data_loss.

Since the database is in suspect status, we are neither able to export the data nor able to back up the database.

Please suggest some options to recover the database from the suspect status. Also it would be great if we can get the commands, scripts to find if the data/log file is corrupt and a way to correct it (even with data loss is fine).

Did you first run a checkdb? What were the errors from the checkdb?

What errors are in the SQL Server error log? Do you have backups available to restore from? That's a better option if the checkdb reported allow_data_loss was the repair level required.

-Sue

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Thanks for the response. The problem is resolved. We brought the database in emergency mode and then in single user mode. Later we were able to recover the database using the checkdb utility, but with some loss of data.

How to query the progress status of a database restore

Hi,

we have a reporting database that needs to be refreshed every week. I normally get a big backup file (50GB) from our business partner very Sunday morning; I have setup a job to restore the database once I got the backup file. The restore job normally will take about 4 or 5 hours to finish, but sometime it may take much longer (more than 10 hours). We knew there is some kind of disk storage contention going on the SAN. When this problem happens the system guy always try to pick my db restore process to be the victim. I hate to kill a job when it has 90% done, but I have no way to tell the restore progress status. Does someone know if I can query database restore progress information from any DMVs?

Thank you for your help in advance.

David Zhang

Hi D. Zhang,

In your Restore Job specify the stats option and use dbcc outputbuffer(spid).

your restore statment can be like this.

Code Snippet

restore database database_name form disk='c:\backupfile.bak' with stats=1

Stats=1 will show very 1% of the progress.

And then use dbcc outputbuffer() if you need check the progress of restore:

Code Snippet

dbcc outputbuffer(spid)

Hope that helps

Jag

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In SQL 2005 you can use the new sys.dm_exec_requests DMV to get estimates for some long running operations like this.

SELECT percent_complete, estimated_completion_time, *
FROM sys.dm_exec_requests

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Thank you so much Peter and Jag, both ways provide me the information that I need. Thanks again!

David Zhang