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- MICROSOFT SQL SERVER CLIENT TOOLS SPECIAL INFORMATION
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- This file contains information pertaining to the use of Microsoft(R)
- SQL Server client tools. The information contained in this file is
- intended to supplement the manuals included in your Microsoft SQL Server
- package.
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- SQL Administrator Compatibility
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- Although the version of SQL Administrator that runs against SQL Server
- for OS/2 4.2/4.2A will also work against SQL Server for Windows NT,
- it is recommended that you upgrade SQL Server client tools on any
- Windows 3.1-based clients that you plan to run against SQL Server for
- Windows NT. This enables you to use additional tools and features
- available with SQL Server for Windows NT (such as SQL Object Manager,
- ISQL/w, and the SQL Client Configuration Utility). SQL Server for OS/2
- version 4.2B contains these tools (version 4.2/4.2A does not). You can
- upgrade your tools to the very latest version, 4.21, by using the
- Windows 3.1 Utilities disk provided with this release of SQL Server for
- Windows NT. If you use the Utilities disk, you must also upgrade the
- existing SQL Server for OS/2 installation if it is not version 4.2B
- (for example, it is version 4.2 or 4.2A) by running INSTMSTR.SQL,
- INSTCAT.SQL, ADMIN2.SQL, and OBJECT2.SQL, which are found in the
- \SQL\INSTALL directory of the SQL Server for Windows NT installation.
- If you plan to use the new Windows Sockets Net-Library, you should
- upgrade the tools to version 4.21. If you do not upgrade to the new versions
- of the tools, you will receive a harmless message about NETAPI.DLL not
- being loaded.
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- SQL Monitor Enhancements
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- *****SQL Monitor and Changing the SA Password*****
- If you change the SA password in SQL Server and want to start
- SQL Monitor as a service (instead of starting SQL Monitor from the
- command line), you must change the SA password in SQL Monitor as
- well. To do this, use the /NEWPASSWORD = parameter in netsql start
- sqlmonitor. For example:
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- netsql start sqlmonitor /NEWPASSWORD=sqlsa
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- Note that starting SQL Monitor with the password parameter (/P=)
- overrides the set SA password.
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- *****SQL Monitor is now Mail Enabled*****
- If you have configured SQL Server for Windows NT to be mail enabled,
- SQL Monitor can send mail messages to specified recipients about
- scheduled backup events. Use the Scheduled Backup Event Entry dialog
- box in SQL Administrator to specify a list of recipients. You can
- specify up to 60 characters, separate names by semicolons. After you
- have specified a list of recipients, those people will be sent mail
- whenever a backup occurs.
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- SQL Administrator Scheduled Backups
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- *****Transaction Log Backups*****
- In previous versions of SQL Administrator, when SQL Monitor attempted
- to perform a scheduled backup for a transaction log and SQL Monitor
- terminated sometime during the process, SQL Monitor would dump the
- transaction log again when restarted, regardless of whether the previous
- backup was successful. This posed a problem because SQL Monitor would
- overwrite the previous transaction log dump, even though it might have
- completed, so the chain of transaction log backups would be incorrect.
- To solve this problem, SQL Monitor now handles failure during a
- transaction log dump in the following order:
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- 1. SQL Monitor records a dump in progress while it is dumping the
- transaction log.
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- 2. If SQL Monitor fails and then starts up again and sees that a dump
- was in progress, but it does not know whether that dump completed,
- SQL Monitor records an error to the Event Log and also sends a mail
- message about the failure to a list of recipients (if SQL Server is mail
- enabled and SQL Administrator is set up to send messages to a list
- of recipients).
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- 3. Further dumps of the transaction log are suspended. After the user
- either dumps the full database or determines that the transaction log
- dump is complete, then the user must reactivate the scheduled transaction
- log dumps. (This is done by selecting Yes under Enable in the Scheduled
- Backup Event Entry dialog box. )
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- Note that if the scheduled backup is a database backup, steps 1 and 2
- are followed, and the schedule for database backups will continue as is
- and not be disabled.
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- *****Performing Long Scheduled Backups*****
- If you are using SQL Administrator to perform scheduled backups of large
- databases (for example, those greater than 100 megabytes), you will likely
- need to increase the SQL Monitor /sqltimeout option to a length of time
- long enough to complete the backup.
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- SQL Object Manager and BCP
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- SQL Object Manager version 4.2 used bulk copy files based on the ANSI
- character set if AutoANSItoOEM was turned on, or based on the character
- set of the SQL Server if AutoANSItoOEM was turned off. The character
- mode BCP.EXE versions 4.20 and 4.21 utilities use bulk copy files based
- on the character set of the SQL Server. With version 4.21,
- SQL Object Manager now uses the OEM character set. If you used
- SQL Object Manager version 4.2 with AutoANSItoOEM turned on to bulk
- copy out character data that contained extended characters (character
- positions 128-255), the file is based on the ANSI character set; if you
- bulk copy the files back in using SQL Object Manager version 4.21,
- these extended characters will be incorrectly converted.
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