We’ve a large SQL2000 DB which is 335GBs in size and a majority of tables are geographically replicated to a subscriber using transactional replication across a 10Mbit line.

We’re going through the process of converting the DBs’ environment to SQL 2005. Unforetunately I think this means we’ll have to re-synch replication (either using snapshot, or via backup)

We need as little an outage as possible.

Pushing a snapshot across the 10Mbit line will take too long.

Backing up the database with compression software (backup compresses to 68Gb) and copying it will also take too long.

I’m considering dropping all the non-clustered indexes first and then backing up the DB this will reduce the backup size by 50%, although I still think this will take too long to copy.

We may have to get this onto an external disk and courier it – but this presents its own problems around security.

Any other ideas appreciated

Regards,

SCM

C EstConnect BegSr
*
C Eval NumAtmpts = 0
C Eval Connected = No
*
C DoW NumAtmpts <= 3
*

THIS CODE ERRORS OUT IN DEBUG SQLCOD = SQL0113 or SQL0188

C/EXEC SQL
C+ CONNECT TO b USER :Id USING w
C/END-EXEC
*
THIS CODE ERRORS OUT IN DEBUG SQLCOD = SQL0113 or SQL0188

I ALSO TRIED SUBSTRINGING THE CONNECT STATEMENT AS:

CONNCT = “CONNECT TO QATMDM USER EDITST USING xxxxxxx” WITH THE SAME ERROR RESULT
DOES THE PASSWORD NEED TO BE ENCRYPTED, AND IF SO HOW IS THAT DONE???

C If SQLCOD = NoSqlError OR
C SQLCOD = Con_Exists
C Eval Connected = Yes
C Leave
C EndIf
*
C Eval NumAtmpts = NumAtmpts + 1
*
C Enddo
C *INZSR BegSr
C Move ‘ ‘ WRTHDR 1
*
C *ENTRY Plist
C Parm INVALS 23
C Parm GIS 1
C Parm RTNCDE 1
C Parm TYPE 2
C Parm APPC 20
*
C MDMKEY KLIST
C KFLD TRXST 5
*
C VNDKEY KLIST
C KFLD TYPE
C KFLD APPC
*
C SQLKEY KLIST
C KFLD TRXST
C KFLD APPC
C KFLD TYPE
*
C Movel ’852′ TRXST
C MOVEL INVALS INVAL
C MDMKEY CHAIN EMDMCTL
C IF %FOUND
C Qte CAT EMCPW WrkPw
C CAT Qte:0 WrkPw
C Eval WrkPw = %Trim(WrkPw)
C Eval Pw = WrkPw
C Eval Db = EMDBNM
C ENDIF
C If GIS = ‘Y’
C OPEN EO852GIS
C Else
C OPEN E852HDRX
C OPEN E852DTLX
C OPEN E852ZAX
C OPEN E852SDQX
C Endif
C EndSr
****************** End of data ****************************************

Here is the code that I put in to concatenate the CONNCT string…

C IF %FOUND
C CONECT CAT EMDBNM:1 CONNCT
C CAT ‘USER’:1 CONNCT
C CAT EMCID:1 CONNCT
C CAT ‘USING’:1 CONNCT
C CAT Qte:0 WrkPw
C CAT EMCPW:0 WrkPw
C CAT Qte:0 WrkPw
C CAT WrkPw:0 CONNCT

The code below that is COMMENTED OUT was the first attempt to get this to work.
C* Eval Db = EMDBNM
C* Qte CAT EMCID:0 WrkId
C* CAT Qte:0 WrkId
C* Eval WrkId = %Trim(WrkId)
C* Eval Id = WrkId
C* Qte CAT EMCPW:0 WrkPw
C* CAT Qte:0 WrkPw
C* Eval WrkPw = %Trim(WrkPw)
C* Eval Pw = WrkPw
C ENDIF