jasona.work (1/26/2011)
Thank you! I'd not looked at the History Cleanup task, so I didn't know what it might do (yes, I'm rather new to managing an SQL Server, and don't have a mentor)So, I took a look at a maintenance plan I had set up to backup several DBs on a server, and checked the msdb size. 108GB!! So I added in a History cleanup at the end, and will see if that shrinks it down tonight when the plan executes!
Thank you from a novice!
Jason A.
Jason, just a word of warning make sure that the cleanup task when deleting 108GB of data does not block other scheduled backups occuring, it maybe an idea to cleanup in smaller chunks instead of one large hit.
Gethyn Elliswww.gethynellis.com