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)
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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
800 reads
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)
461 reads
The following script performs log, differential or full backups of a single, or all databases on your SQL Server. It then copies or moves the file(s) over to a network share drive. It also removes old backups from both locations if needed. Don't forget to set the local drive path and network share for each […]
2007-09-14 (first published: 2007-05-16)
19,166 reads
A simple script to find the database recovery model. Cut & paste into Query Analyser
2007-05-17 (first published: 2007-05-08)
2,985 reads
This is just a quick method to determine the backup mode of all databases on a server. No cursor involed.
2007-05-18 (first published: 2007-05-07)
433 reads
2007-04-27 (first published: 2007-04-03)
1,293 reads
Muestra la ubicacion del Backup mas reciente. Backup completo y backup diferencil de todas las BBDD.Get the location of the recent Backup. Complete Backup and backup diferencil of all the BBDD.
2007-04-13 (first published: 2007-04-02)
786 reads
This script will query msdb to determine the size of data and log files for all databases, along with the average sizes of full and transaction log backups. Results are averaged over the past two weeks, but this is easily changed.
2007-01-12 (first published: 2007-01-05)
1,621 reads
This is just an update which fix a small bug (0 day backup bug with SQL Backup)
2007-01-03 (first published: 2006-12-19)
575 reads
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