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1999458 - The 'dump tran' command raises error 4205 "Syslogs does not exist in its own segment..." - SAP ASE

Symptom

  • Running a 'dump transaction' command using 'to file' option
  • On a database with no dedicated log segment
    • sp_helpdb showing 'mixed log and data' in Status field and
    • sysusages.segmap for that database only has allocations with a segmap value of "7"

  • Results in error 4205
  • Using model database as an example of a database with mixed log and data 

    dump tran model to "/tmp/model.dmp"

    Msg 4205, Level 16, State 1:
    Server 'ASE', Line 1:
    Syslogs does not exist in its own segment in database 'model' with segmap '7' with logical start page number of '0'.
    You cannot use DUMP TRANSACTION in this case, use DUMP DATABASE instead.

  • A number of system databases, including master, model, tempdb and sybsystemprocs are mixed log and data


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Environment

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE). Not version specific.

Product

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise all versions

Keywords

4205 , sp_logdevice , "mixed data and log segment" , KBA , BC-SYB-ASE , Sybase ASE Database Platform (non Business Suite) , Problem

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