One of the challenges weve faced is changing passwords in a warm server to reflect changes made to the live server. The initial transfer of users and passwords was performed by the sp_help_revlogin script provided by Microsoft at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246133. The difficulty with this script was once the users are in place, you cant sync changed […]
2003-01-08
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Came across a great script from Ken Kaufman on copying backups using xp_cmdshell. Thought I'd contribute a script I wrote that builds on that to restore the latest production backup to a testing or development server. In this case I routinely create all my production backups to a network share and then use that source […]
2002-12-16
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This script will do a full backup of any new database(s) on the server that does not have a backup already. This script runs Monday thru Saturday at our site.
2002-12-12
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This script will backup all databases that are online and have a recovery property of 'SIMPLE' AND already have a full backup. This script is set to run Monday thru Saturday at our site.
2002-12-12
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This script will backup all databases that are online (sql 2000). So if a new database is added you will get a backup. This is setup as a weekly job at our site (Sunday night).
2002-12-12
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A procedure too re-attach a data( MDF ) file when the log file is missing or not recoverable.
2002-11-22
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Use this script to create a warm standby database server for all your user database. This new version has a new feature to allow the standby database to be in a ready-only mode so that users can access it. You can change the job schedule to suit your requirement. One bug has been fixed that […]
2002-10-31
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I use this script on some (not all) databases to backup the Logs when they reach a certain level of being full. For example, when the log is 60% full the log will be backed up.Change the ????? values and this script is ready to go.
2002-10-03
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This Stored Procedure create backup job for all user databases. You can customize SQLAdmin operator.See Creating Backup Devices
2002-09-12
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This Stored Procedure create backup devices for all user databases. You can customize path, name standard and type of device.See Creating Job Backup
2002-09-12
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