Comprehensive Backup Script
These scripts were generated to standardize our SQL backup environments, and to remove backups from Maintenance Plans.
2011-12-22 (first published: 2008-01-29)
3,455 reads
Backup and restore
Reporting on Activity across Multiple Servers using SQL Backup and SQL Multi Script
Rodney Landrum presents a creative solution for dynamic reporting across all of his SQL Servers, based on use of Red Gate's SQL Backup and SQL Multi Script.
2008-01-22
3,386 reads
Shrink all databases
Procedure changes all databases' recovery mode to simple and shrinks them all (or at least it tries to).
2012-03-07 (first published: 2008-01-14)
3,924 reads
2012-08-03 (first published: 2008-01-09)
2,323 reads
2008-01-29 (first published: 2007-11-23)
1,971 reads
2011-09-09 (first published: 2007-11-19)
8,935 reads
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)
3,116 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
4,529 reads
2011-06-01 (first published: 2007-09-02)
10,475 reads
Blogs
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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