Backup and Housekeeping with Maintenance Plans
Get an idea of how to handle the housekeeping tasks associated with backups, like removing old backup and log files.
2014-02-17 (first published: 2011-01-26)
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Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions
I wrote a post a while back that showed how you can grant execute permission ‘carte blanche’ for a database...
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Should I have AutoGrowth enabled on my SQL Server Database
I was reading a few forum posts yesterday where a few people were complaining that the transaction log had grown...
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Managing Your Backup Files
I recently posted a couple of scripts that backup all databases on your SQL Server instance to disk with a...
2010-03-31
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$server = "YourServer" $db = "YourDatabase" $sqlFile = "C:\path\query.sql" $outFile = "C:\path\output.xlsx" # Run...
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