Comments on: SQL SERVER – Find Current Location of Data and Log File of All the Database

By: SQL SERVER – Finding Location of Log File when Primary Datafile is Crashed Journey to SQLAuthority

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:31:57 +0000

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By: Phillby11

Phillby11 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:53:04 +0000

To achieve the same result in SQL 2000

SELECT name, filename AS current_file_location
FROM master..sysdatabases

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:30:03 +0000

Make use of this post
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2009/05/07/how-to-find-size-of-backup-files-in-a-folder.aspx

By: Shaheb

Shaheb — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:08:58 +0000

Hi Panal,
I want a list of .mdf and .ldf filename,size,location and date modifed through query analyzer same as we check in the drive.how to write a T-Sql to get this information.
Thanks in advance
Shahab

By: Alba Henning

Alba Henning — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:30:18 +0000

Good Morning, Reading this website is a real pleasure, Many thanks !

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:17:35 +0000

How did you confirm the reader did not return data?

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:58:26 +0000

how to do it in vb.net? i try use the reader but it faile to return any result

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:56:02 +0000

Hi! I had try it in Query, it work and give me result.
I try to implement into vb.net with:

Dim sqlStatement1 As SqlCommand
sqlStatement1 = New SqlCommand(“SELECT name, physical_name AS current_file_location FROM sys.master_files Where name = ‘Ticket’”, mMain.Conn)

Dim sdr1 As SqlDataReader = sqlStatement1.ExecuteReader()

the reader return no result. why?

By: Vikram K Mahapatra

Vikram K Mahapatra — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:38:50 +0000

We can also find the location of data file and log file by executing sp_helpfile.

By: Salman

Salman — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:27:34 +0000

Give Solutin For Reduce size of Log File:

By: SQL SERVER – Find Most Active Database in SQL Server – DMV dm_io_virtual_file_stats Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:31:47 +0000

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By: Sreedhar

Sreedhar — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:34:17 +0000

I noticed we have to do both match of the two queries, pinal dave and jerry hung.

In most of the production, the database name can be different and file names can also not be prefixed with database name.
(because of real backup and restore scenarios).

Also, I add is the size in KB, MB, GB … for better readability.

Hope it is useful for others.

SELECT
DB_NAME(mf.database_id) AS databaseName,
name as File_LogicalName,
case
when type_desc = ‘LOG’ then ‘Log File’
when type_desc = ‘ROWS’ then ‘Data File’
Else type_desc
end as File_type_desc
,mf.physical_name
,num_of_reads
,num_of_bytes_read
,io_stall_read_ms
,num_of_writes
,num_of_bytes_written
,io_stall_write_ms
,io_stall
,size_on_disk_bytes
,size_on_disk_bytes/ 1024 as size_on_disk_KB
,size_on_disk_bytes/ 1024 / 1024 as size_on_disk_MB
,size_on_disk_bytes/ 1024 / 1024 / 1024 as size_on_disk_GB
FROM sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats(NULL, NULL) AS divfs
JOIN sys.master_files AS mf ON mf.database_id = divfs.database_id
AND mf.file_id = divfs.file_id
ORDER BY num_of_Reads DESC

By: Abson

Abson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:54:24 +0000

I am trying to Find Current Location of Data and Log File of All the Database on SQL 2000 but getting errors. It seems the compiler does not like name after SELECT statement.

Which word can I replace name with.

By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:45:09 +0000

Nice

below script shows the files used frequency (by joining with DMV dm_io_virtual_file_stats)

SELECT DB_NAME(mf.database_id) AS databaseName
,mf.physical_name
,num_of_reads
,num_of_bytes_read
,io_stall_read_ms
,num_of_writes
,num_of_bytes_written
,io_stall_write_ms
,io_stall
,size_on_disk_bytes
FROM sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats(NULL, NULL) AS divfs
JOIN sys.master_files AS mf ON mf.database_id = divfs.database_id
AND mf.file_id = divfs.file_id
ORDER BY 3 DESC