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  • November 4, 2013 at 10:38 am

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    Sqlsavy (11/4/2013)

    Is it possible to delete old backups using SQL backup script with RETAINDAYS ?

    No and apologies for the confusion on that.

    Normally when I see folks with a RETAINDAYS limit set during the backup creation, they also have something that automatically deletes data sometimes even before a new and viable backup has been made. That's what I was warning against and failed to be clear on that subject.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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