2012-08-03 (first published: 2008-01-09)
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Backup and restore
2008-01-29 (first published: 2007-11-23)
1,967 reads
2011-09-09 (first published: 2007-11-19)
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Featured Blog: BACKUP LOG WITH NO_LOG
From one of the SQL Server 2005 storage engine lead developers comes this look at the impact of using the NO_LOG and TRUNCATE_ONLY options.
2007-10-24
3,313 reads
Restore Server/Database users/roles
Restore server/database users and roles from another server when we are restoring databases to another server.
2012-04-12 (first published: 2007-10-23)
3,114 reads
Restore 2000 DB to 2005
This script was designed to restore a backup of a SQL Server 2000 database from disk file to SQL Server 2005.Unfortunatelly the RESTORE will leave land mines for you to find the hard way, this script was updated to fix all that I have found:Change CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON, PAGE_VERIFY CHECKSUM, Compatibility level to 90, remove the […]
2007-09-14
4,526 reads
2011-06-01 (first published: 2007-09-02)
10,472 reads
Check Full Recovery DBs Have Tran Log Backups
A quick procedure to check which full recovery databases have not had a tran log backup in the given period (default is 7 days). This could mean that the recovery mode might need changing or the transaction log backup jobs need investigating.
2011-09-22 (first published: 2007-08-03)
1,711 reads
Shrink databases
This procedure is used to shrink the databases. Many times we use shrink option to shrink the databases for backup. and we do it N number of times, when we take the back of databses or make free space of drive.instructions:- Follwo the step.1. run script.2. And execute the statement, exec shrink_databasesI m new, if […]
2007-06-27
795 reads
Creating BCH Files for Veritas Direct to Tape
This script was written to solve a problem where we needed to dynamically create bch files for Veritas Backups direct to tape backups. We needed to parse the sysdatabases daily and create the bch files that veritas would use to backup each server and database. This SQL Script uses xp_cmdshell to call a windows shell […]
2007-10-02 (first published: 2007-06-18)
457 reads
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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