2011-08-18 (first published: 2011-08-04)
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2011-08-18 (first published: 2011-08-04)
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Write your database backup to multiple files. In addition to writing your database backup to one file you have the ability to write to multiple files at the same time and therefore split up the workload. The advantage to doing this is that the backup process can run using multiple threads and therefore finish faster as well as having much smaller files that can be moved across the network or copied to a CD or DVD.
2011-07-29
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When creating a backup that will be restored to a development database, you may need to mask PII information. This script will help you with that.
2011-06-09 (first published: 2011-05-25)
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2011-03-09
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2011-02-23
2,674 reads
We have recently found an elegant way to reduce the time, and disk space required for SharePoint administrators who need to perform granular recovery operations out of their SQL Server backup files. I used to get customer calls that would go something like this:
2011-02-23
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2011-02-16
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2011-02-11 (first published: 2011-01-31)
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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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Learn how to write a script for regular database backups using Powershell and SMO.
2013-05-17 (first published: 2011-01-05)
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By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
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On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers