DB and Log backup

Hello all,

We currently have disk space problem on our main SQL server (say server "A")
and I'l like to save DBs and logs backups on another server (say "B"). Is
that possible? I tried to set the backup path to point to B but it generate
an error. Serurity/Account issue? SS2K on A was running under the System
account. I tried to change it to an account that was created on both server.
Still an error.

Any help/suggestion would be appreciated.

Both server are running SS2000 SP3. Server A is W2K and B is NT4.

Thanks for your time.

Yannick"Yannick Turgeon" <nobody@.nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
> We currently have disk space problem on our main SQL server (say server
> "A") and I'l like to save DBs and logs backups on another server (say
> "B"). Is that possible? I tried to set the backup path to point to B but
> it generate an error. Serurity/Account issue? SS2K on A was running under
> the System account. I tried to change it to an account that was created on
> both server. Still an error.
> Any help/suggestion would be appreciated.
> Both server are running SS2000 SP3. Server A is W2K and B is NT4.
> Thanks for your time.
> Yannick

The MSSQL service account on server A needs to be a domain account with
access to the share on server B where you want to place the backups. Then a
command like this should work fine:

backup MyDB to disk = '\\serverB\share\folder\MyDB.bak

If you have a local account on each server with the same name and password,
then it will probably work too (I've never tried it myself), but using a
domain account would be easier anyway. There's more information about using
a domain account in Books Online under "Setting up Windows Services
Accounts" and "Changing Passwords and User Accounts".

If this doesn't help, it would be useful to know exactly what backup command
you're executing and what the error messages are.

Simon|||Hello Simon,

Your command worked. But I tried to make a backup from a Maintenance Plan
and it was this SQL command that was not working. After some comparaison
between both command I finally realised it was not working because I wrote
in the destination \\serverB\share instead of \\serverB\share\ (forgot the
trailing backslash).

Thanks for your help.

Yannick

"Simon Hayes" <sql@.hayes.ch> wrote in message
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> "Yannick Turgeon" <nobody@.nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:U4cFd.34222$TN6.1120153@.news20.bellglobal.com ...
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We currently have disk space problem on our main SQL server (say server
>> "A") and I'l like to save DBs and logs backups on another server (say
>> "B"). Is that possible? I tried to set the backup path to point to B but
>> it generate an error. Serurity/Account issue? SS2K on A was running under
>> the System account. I tried to change it to an account that was created
>> on both server. Still an error.
>>
>> Any help/suggestion would be appreciated.
>>
>> Both server are running SS2000 SP3. Server A is W2K and B is NT4.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> Yannick
>>
> The MSSQL service account on server A needs to be a domain account with
> access to the share on server B where you want to place the backups. Then
> a command like this should work fine:
> backup MyDB to disk = '\\serverB\share\folder\MyDB.bak
> If you have a local account on each server with the same name and
> password, then it will probably work too (I've never tried it myself), but
> using a domain account would be easier anyway. There's more information
> about using a domain account in Books Online under "Setting up Windows
> Services Accounts" and "Changing Passwords and User Accounts".
> If this doesn't help, it would be useful to know exactly what backup
> command you're executing and what the error messages are.
> Simon

DateTime unable to save in datetime field of SQL database

Hi all, having a little problem with saving dates to sql database

I've got the CreatedOn field in the table set to datetime type, but every time i try and run it i get an error kicked up

Error "

The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.
The statement has been terminated."

I've tried researching it but not been able to find something similar.

Heres the code:

DateTime createOn = DateTime.Now;

string sSQLStatement = "INSERT INTO Index (Name, Description, Creator,CreatedOn) values ('" + name + "','" + description + "','" + userName + "','" + createOn + "')";

Any help would be much appreciated

If you are using SQL Server, change the statement to

INSERT INTO Index (Name, Description, Creator,CreatedOn) values ('" +name + "','" + description + "','" + userName + "',GetDate())

If you are using Access then use this:

INSERT INTO Index (Name, Description, Creator,CreatedOn) values ('" +name + "','" + description + "','" + userName + "',Date())

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Sorry, my fault i should have said, i'm coding in c sharp, heres the expanded function

void AddToQuizIndex(String userName,String quizName,String description,String question_xml)

{

DateTime createOn = DateTime.Now;

string sSQLStatement ="INSERT INTO QuizIndex (Name, Description,Creator,CreatedOn,Data) values ('" + quizName +"','" + description +"','" + userName +"','" +createOn+"','" + question_xml +"')";this.ActionSQLStatement(sSQLStatement);

}

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C# makes no difference. GetDate() in SQL Server will automatically apply the equivalent of C# datetime.now. But your database won't complain. Try it.

string sSQLStatement ="INSERT INTO QuizIndex (Name, Description,Creator,CreatedOn,Data) values ('" + quizName +"','" + description +"','" + userName +"',GetDate(),'" + question_xml +"')";

Really, you should be using parameters rather than compiling dynamic SQL statements, but that's another topic.

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nice one, first time i tried it i didn't put ' ' round the GetDate()

Thanks very much for the replyMikesdotnetting, you really helped me out.