2025-05-12
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Log Shipping
2025-04-28
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Minimal Downtime Storage Migration of Large Databases
This article shows how we were able to migrate a TB size database to new storage with minimal downtime.
2024-01-01 (first published: 2021-02-24)
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2020-12-10
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2018-06-28
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Logshipping Report
Get Logshipping report only when secondary is more than certain time behind Primary.
2017-11-14 (first published: 2017-10-27)
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2016-05-11
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Move an Existing Log Shipping Database to a New Monitor Server
How to move a log shipping database to a new monitor server without removing and rebuilding the log shipping setup.
2016-04-04
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Faster Log Shipping Restores
When you’re reading from a log shipped secondary, you want the duration of restores to be as short as possible. The sproc provided switches the restores to “NORECOVERY” mode, and then switch back to “STANDBY” at the end of the process.
2015-12-11 (first published: 2015-11-23)
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Streamline Log Shipping Failovers: DR Made Just For You…
A look at a SQL script solution that can help you easily fail over and back from log shipping scenarios.
2018-12-14 (first published: 2015-09-08)
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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