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1999458 - DUMP TRAN command raises error Msg 4205 "Syslogs does not exist in its own segment..." - SAP ASE

Symptom

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

  • Results in error 4205:

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


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Environment

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

Product

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.7

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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