Dear Gurus,

I need suggestion and advice on the below issue facing. I'm trying to restore the database on to the DR site manually which was taken from the HO Production server and did restored the backup successfully .While trying to load one of the transaction log it has thrown me error stating

Msg 926, Level 14, State 2:

Server 'SID', Line 1:

Database 'SID' cannot be opened. An earlier attempt at recovery marked it

'suspect'. Check the ASE errorlog for information as to the cause.

According to the log on the DR server ,it shows log

00:0003:00000:00161:2013/09/03 14:40:48.22 server  Error: 3474, Severity: 21, State: 1

00:0003:00000:00161:2013/09/03 14:40:48.22 server  During redo the page timestamp value is less than old timestamp from log. Page #=9161, object id = 254893940, page timestamp=0000 6032e345. Log old timestamp=0000 663bd9d5. Log record marker = (20026859, 62).

But its strange that i have not missed any transaction log sequence .Now im not able to make the database online also with the previous transaction and back restored .According to the information it states could be the database or transaction logs could be corrupted but if i try to restore the other backup file it gives me same error

Msg 926, Level 14, State 2:

Server 'SID', Line 1:

Database 'SID' cannot be opened. An earlier attempt at recovery marked it

'suspect'

Please suggest me to proceed further.

Dear Expert,

We are using Sybase Database 15.7.0.012 with OS AIX, as i new to Sybase please guide how to take backup of Sybase Database.

As per note 158831 we tried but get below error

1> sp_config_dump @config_name='ECDDB',

2> @stripe_dir = '/inst/backup' ,

3> @compression = '101' ,

4> @verify = 'header'

5> go

Msg 2812, Level 16, State 5:

Server 'ECD', Line 1:

Stored procedure 'sp_config_dump' not found. Specify owner.objectname or use

sp_help to check whether the object exists (sp_help may produce lots of

output).

Also we want to take backup on Tape Drive instead of Harddisk & schedule backup in DB13, kindly suggest procedure.

Thanks & Regards,

Abhijit

Helloall!

I amnew toadministration Sybase ASE.

Help mepleaseto find a documentthat describes thebackup strategyfor the database Sybase.

I found Note 1588316 - SYB Configure automatic database and log backups.

But I don'tunderstand where is offline backupand where is online backup?

I was workingwith a database Oracle, thereexistsa offlinebackup, online backup, backup redologs.

Howtomake a backup strategy for database Sybase?

Hi All,

I am trying to take backup for Sybase database and transcation log as per below link,

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3245201

I was successfully able to take the backup for database without any issues but when I try to take the transcations log backup I end up with below error,

1> sp_dumptrans SBP

2> go

Msg 4208, Level 16, State 1:

Server 'SBP', Line 1:

DUMP TRANsaction to a dump device is not allowed while the trunc. log on chkpt.

option is enabled.  Disable the option with sp_dboption, then use DUMP DATABASE,

before trying again. (Return status = 4208)

1>

Later after checking the SAP guide for Sybase database we tried to setup below options,

=====================================================================================

Ensure that a complete sequence of transaction log archives is available at all times

For your SAP database <DBSID> it is mandatory that you ensure that the archived log sequence

remains unbroken.

To ensure a complete log sequence, set the following database options:

trunc log on chkpt, false

full logging for all, true

enforce dump tran sequence, true

You have to set these options after a successful  DUMP DATABASE has been performed and before any

Set these options using the stored procedure sp_dboption to change database options. (Syntax:sp_dboption [dbname, optname, {true | false}] ). You must change to the master database to be able to change options for a database

========================================================================

My question is do I need to login to Master database to set this options because when I try to set the below option

sp_dboption 'master', 'trunc. log on chkpt', 'false'

I end up with below error,

When I try to login to master database with sa user I could not,I gave the same password which i gave it during the installation

Pelase advise on how to proceed further

Regards

Uday

change is made to the database,

Hi,

I am new to Sybase database. I have just installed ECC6 EHP5 on Sybase database. I do not know how to backup and restore the database. Can anyone please guide me.

Regards

Ivan

Hello All,

We are using Sybase ASE 15.7.0.42 on RHEL Linux. I am trying to configure the DB backups for the first time.  After going through SAP Note 1588316 , I created the dump configurations for both the DB and the temp logs. The local filesystems are also in place. However when I try to set the parameter 'enable dump configuration' using sp_configure it gives me an error as below;

1> sp_configure "enable dump configuration" , 1
2> go
Msg 18124, Level 16, State 1:
Server 'ABC', Procedure 'sp_configure', Line 1586:
No matching configuration options.  Here is a listing of groups:

--------------------------------------------------
Application Functionality
Backup/Recovery
Cache Manager
Component Integration Services
Configuration Options
DTM Administration
Diagnostics
Disk I/O
Error Log
Extended Stored Procedure
General Information
Java Services
Languages
Lock Manager
Memory Use
Meta-Data Caches
Monitoring
Network Communication
O/S Resources
Physical Memory
Physical Resources
Processors
Query Tuning
Rep Agent Thread Administration
SQL Server Administration
Security Related
Shared Disk Cluster
Unicode
User Environment

(1 row affected)
(return status = 1)

I was going through a few other links and found that there is another parameter 'enforce dump configuration' which should be set to 1 to enforce the dump configurations that I have created.

Request somebody to shed some light on this issue.

Thanks

Surajit

Hi,

I have installed NW7.3 EHP1 with Sybase database 15.7.0.12,I have performed the backup through Stored procedure and also tried backing up the database with Sybase Central,both were successfull

Now I wanted to perform the backup's through DBACOCKPIT,please let me know if there is any guide which tell me how to achieve this

Regards

Uday

Hi ,

i have installed ECC 6.0 ehp6 with sybase . working fine , now requirement is need to build same system using backup .

for that i have taken backup using below commands .

1. Login as syb<sid>

used command prompt for log in (isql )

isql -Usapsa -SDQ1 -w4901

>

than i used for backup below command ,

dump database <SID> to 'path to backup/backup.dmp'

it completed shown completed 100 % dumped .

please let me know procedure for do restore into new server . please help me regarding this ,

Regards

Kumar

Hi experts,

I install my first system in ASE... and I have a big problem; how can do a backup?

In db13 only appear two actions:

- SQL Script

- Central Calendar Log Collector

How can create a backup with this actions?

My system is SAP ERP 6.0 with EHP5

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Hi,

we have a "strange" error during SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6 on SYBASE installation in phase "Sybase ASE Database system parameters".

Note: hard disk size exceeded for location /Sybase/S01 (requires 4 Gb). Minimal size of
the database devices are 88G for data and 10G for log

File system /Sybase/S01 is:

/dev/mapper/vg_dev-lv_sybase_S01      5.0G   69M  4.7G   2% /sybase/S01

We used the following version of installer (the last): 70SWPM10SP01_3-20009701.sar

We found SAP Note 1765985 – “SYB: Sybase ASE setup reports false low disk space warning”, but it didn’t help us to solve problem.

We launched command “/bin/df –Pk” as suggested, but all file system are displayed, so we set (in shell where we started SAPINST) environment variable CHECK_DISK_SPACE=OFF, but the error occurred again.

Our error is similar to that dsscibed in the following blog post, but the solution in not good for us

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3295886

Regards and thanks for support!

We have installed SAP EHP6 on SYBASE database in AIX7.1,We are taking

backup

through isql mode, we are not able to find backup completed

details in

DBACockpit transaction, where we can find in backup

completed status in

DBAcockpit(like DB12 or DB14 in SAP-oracle).

But we are able to see log

dump backup completed status in DBAcockpit,

But not able to get the status of

last database dump backup

Can any body provide the solution

Regards,

Pranithviswa

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Hello guys, I have recently migrated my ECC to sybase ASE.

And around midinte I receive this message on SM21

[ASE Error SQL156]Incorrect syntax near the keyword

'current'.#[ASE Error SQL102:42000]Incorrect syntax near

'timestamp'.#

Someone of you hve the same error?

Please let me know.

Dear All,

We are doing PI 7.31 installation.During installation got the error as Create user sapadm failed.So we created the user with admin rights and continued.After a few steps,now the sap installation gui closed automatically.We again started installation with continue with old option and again sap inst gui is closing automatically.

The sapinst.log file showed the error as follows

ERROR 2013-09-05 19:29:05.715

MUT-03011  Execution of the command "/tmp/sapinst_exe.16580688.1378426305/SAPCAR -x -v -i -R /usr/sap/PID/SYS/global/syb/rs6000_64 -f /dump/51046164_4Kernel721/SYBASE_ASE_15.7.0.100_RDBMS_for_BS_/SYBASE_AIX_PPC64/DBCLIENT.SAR," finished with return code 6. Output:

SAPCAR: error opening /dump/51046164_4Kernel721/SYBASE_ASE_15.7.0.100_RDBMS_for_BS_/SYBASE_AIX_PPC64/DBCLIENT.SAR (error 6). Permission denied

SAPCAR: 0 file(s) extracted

I have given full permission to the file. Still it is giving same error.

Kindly provide a solution for this.

Thanks and Regards,

Mathan A

Hi Folks, thanks for reading my questions

Ive been researching about doing update statistics on ASE 15.0.3 , and some things i cant find a clear docmentation referece...

1)  When doing a reorg rebuild, event that the indexes are effectively rebuilt, the statistics for all columns in the indexes are not collected along it.

Only for the leading column for the PK. So, its necessary to rerun update index statistics, in order to gather the statistics for the remaining columns in the indexes. Is this correct? If its necessary to collect the indexes, it would be realy helpful to DBAs to have this information on the following link

http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/topic/com.sybase.help.ase_15.0.commands/html/commands/commands78.htm

2)  Our standard procedure is to run “update index statistics table“ for all of our tables. We are planning to use sampling , but it seems  necessary to collect

a full table statistics for the given table in order to have sampling working as expected. Is it correct?  (we are using DOL tables). Could be possible to run update statistics on the PK first in order to have ASE to start using sampling properly?

3)  Its not clear to me if using “sampling” effectively makes update statistics to collect a lower number of pages. Im in doubt if ASE effectively reads all the pages

but discard information, or if it somehow uses the OAM in order to skip reading pages…    Is there a good reference for this?

Dear Gurus,

I need suggestion and advice on the below issue facing. I'm trying to restore the database on to the DR site manually which was taken from the HO Production server and did restored the backup successfully .While trying to load one of the transaction log it has thrown me error stating

Msg 926, Level 14, State 2:

Server 'SID', Line 1:

Database 'SID' cannot be opened. An earlier attempt at recovery marked it

'suspect'. Check the ASE errorlog for information as to the cause.

According to the log on the DR server ,it shows log

00:0003:00000:00161:2013/09/03 14:40:48.22 server  Error: 3474, Severity: 21, State: 1

00:0003:00000:00161:2013/09/03 14:40:48.22 server  During redo the page timestamp value is less than old timestamp from log. Page #=9161, object id = 254893940, page timestamp=0000 6032e345. Log old timestamp=0000 663bd9d5. Log record marker = (20026859, 62).

But its strange that i have not missed any transaction log sequence .Now im not able to make the database online also with the previous transaction and back restored .According to the information it states could be the database or transaction logs could be corrupted but if i try to restore the other backup file it gives me same error

Msg 926, Level 14, State 2:

Server 'SID', Line 1:

Database 'SID' cannot be opened. An earlier attempt at recovery marked it

'suspect'

Please suggest me to proceed further.

Hi Experts,

We have scheduled the DB backup as well as Transaction log  backup in DB13 calendar. But from last one week onwards the Backup as well as Transaction log getting cancelled with the below mentioned error. Please find attached error screen shot (sp_dumptrans-error.jpg) and let me know how to proceed further.

Regards,

Narasimhan Krishna

Dear All,

Our OS is AIX and Database is Sybase ASE 15.7 and SAP version is ECC6 EHP6.

We have done the nwbcconfiguration for accessing sap via web browser.When we login to to sap in web browser the short dump ITAB_DUPLICATE_KEY is generated.

Checking the Snote 1674895 we tried to upgrade the Basis package level.
During upgrade the SP there is another short dump DBIF_RSQL_SQL_ERROR in AUTO_MOD_SPAU phase.

Now i am not able to reset the spam queue also.

I have attached both the short dumps with this.Kindly check on the same and provide a suitable solution.

Thanks and Regards,
Mathan A