Building Automated Backups

Backups are the foundation of any well run database server, or even any computer system. Numerous articles have been written about SQL Server backups and new author Paulo Luis brings us a new twist on building automated backups using devices.

Custom Log Shipping using VB.NET

This is a first version of a custom solution for SQL Server log shipping using VB.NET 2005 and .NET Framework v.2.0. The script has to run on a server where you have SQL Server 2005 (or at least tools) installed because it uses new SMO. For some functions of the script you will have to […]

Synchronize SID with Login SID - No CURSOR

BCP OUT all table data in your Database

Data Recovery is vital. This script will cursor through your database and BCP OUT the table data to a directory specifically for each day of the week (in numbers - where 1 = Sunday and 7 = Saturday) in order to have table recoverability up to 7 days. The first step is to create the […]

Backup Verification

The following script runs against the current server and retrieves number of days since last full or differential and the number of days between them. it also retrieves the number of hours since the last transaction log backup.It currently returns a grid output.currently the script is under going changes to send XML back to an […]

Stored procedure: Determine last database backup

You have many SQL Servers to administer and you just want to know when the last backup was taken for each database on each instance. This stored procedure will help.

Server Backup History Report (updated 2006-04-11)

Server Backup History Report (Full DB Backups only) 1. lists all databases with no backup history 2. lists last backup for other databases includes Date, User, Size, Duration, Age, Finish Date & Location Includes system databases Excludes TempDB Excludes backup history data where backupmediafamily.device_type = 7 these are typically created by Veritas BackupExec Tested on […]

Backup any/all Databases (Native AND LiteSpeed friendly)

This script can run backups for any/all databases using both SQL native and Quest's SQL LiteSpeed product. It includes options for Complete (Full), Differential, and Transaction Log backups (File and File Group backups will be coming soon). It will also clean up old backups and the msdb tables accordingly.See script for a full parameter list.NOTE: […]

Idera SQLSafe SP

Useful for Idera SQLSafe backups. Great software but the GUI and maintenance plan generation are a little quirky. You can easily modify this for Full, Log, Encryption, etc. - Example:EXEC usp_SS_FullBackup @dbsvrname='YOURSERVERNAME',@dbname='Northwind',@path='C:\Northwind_Full_',@description='Full Backups for Northwind'

Synchronize DB user SID with Login SID - 2nd way

This script helps you synchronizing ALL orphaned database users to syslogins of the new database server. To run it, pass the target database name in on the first line.