This is one example of how you can make backups with a date stamp for the file name. You can then periodically remove the files that are older than a specified date by simply placing a few lines of code in a job step and calling the supplied sp and passing the date from which […]
2003-04-25
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I see scripts all the time on how to reindex all the tables in a db but they are usually too generic and may cause issues. For instance they typically cause the log file to grow very large and may even fill the hard drive. This is intended to be run off hours when db […]
2003-04-24
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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