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Differential Restore Fail
We have all heard that backup is not complete until you test it by restoring it. We also know that part of a DR plan involves the testing of those backups through restores. I recently had the...
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Backup History
This is a quick rewrite of the script I just posted a few days ago. The script had a few flaws if trying to run it on a SQL 2005 box. I have updated it to run against SQL 2005 and up. This version is...
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Is your LOG backed up?
You have been doing a fantastic job of late. You have all of your databases being backed up on a regular schedule. Now you get an alert that your transaction log just keeps growing. Why is that? You...
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New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here. Something that hasn’t received much word is a new...
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Compressing Encrypted Backups
A common requirement, whether it be based out of pure want or truly out of necessity, is to make a large database backup file, that is encrypted, be much smaller. This was a knock for the early days of...
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Last Restore of a Database – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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Database Backup History – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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Database Backups – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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What Agent Job is Running – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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User Contains Invalid Characters – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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Parse Dynamics AX Context Info
Dynamics AX and SQL Server More and more I am seeing clients requiring assistance with the Microsoft Dynamics Suite. Each of the products in the suite comes with a different set of performance issues...
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Endpoint Owners – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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Is your LOG backed up?
You have been doing a fantastic job of late. You have all of your databases being backed up on a regular schedule. Now you get an alert that your transaction log just keeps growing. Why is that? You...
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New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here. Something that hasn’t received much word is a new...
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Compressing Encrypted Backups
A common requirement, whether it be based out of pure want or truly out of necessity, is to make a large database backup file, that is encrypted, be much smaller. This was a knock for the early days of...
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Last Restore of a Database – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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Database Backup History – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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Database Backups – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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What Agent Job is Running – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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User Contains Invalid Characters – Back to Basics
Remember When… Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a blog post each month on a SQL Server Basic. Some have hash-tagged this as #backtobasics....
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