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 […]
2006-04-28 (first published: 2006-03-23)
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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: […]
2006-10-25 (first published: 2006-02-06)
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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'
2007-02-19 (first published: 2005-10-10)
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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.
2005-08-29 (first published: 2005-08-27)
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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.
2007-06-08 (first published: 2005-08-27)
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This script will remove all the spids from a particular and allow you restore a database to a different location. The path of dump can be local or remote. It is very useful for quickly restoring a copy of production for testing purposes.
2005-08-22 (first published: 2005-08-16)
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If you wish to save the contents of your database as insert statements, this script will generate a text file that has all data formatted as insert statements. This way you can save off the data as a script to send to a client or combine with a create script to rebuild the database on […]
2005-07-29 (first published: 2005-07-18)
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Import database from source server using full and transaction log backups as recorded in msdb. Use it to import one or more databases to your development environment, to test your backups regularly or to move databases to a new server. To move to a new server, take a transaction log backup and put all in […]
2005-07-04 (first published: 2005-07-01)
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This script checks the latest backup of all databases. Then it write a logfile with this timestamp. all backups older than one day will be marked as ERROR.
2007-06-11 (first published: 2005-06-30)
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Import database from source server using full and transaction log backups as recorded in msdb. Use it to import one or more databases to your development environment, to test your backups regularly or to move databases to a new server. Works on SQL 7 and SQL 2000 with native and/or LiteSpeed full backups and native […]
2007-06-06 (first published: 2005-06-29)
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