Adding a log shipping monitor
This article describes how to add a log shipping monitor to a log shipping configuration that is already in place.
2012-03-15
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Log Shipping
SQL Server Log Shipping Between Standalone\Workgroup Computers
This article describes the requirements to log ship databases between workgroup computers
2012-01-30
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SQL Server Log Shipping to a Different Domain or Workgroup
Sometimes the requirement arises to provide a copy of your database to an off-site location, such as a disaster recovery datacenter. Log Shipping is one of the most popular, proven technologies used to create a copy of your databases on a remote server.
2012-01-13
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How to Setup Log Shipping for Multiple Databases
This article by Brian Davey describes how to setup log shipping for a large number of databases minimizing the number of jobs needed thus significantly reducing CPU and memory usage.
2011-09-28
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SQL Server Log Shipping For Large Databases
In this article you will see the detailed steps needed to implement the log shipping for large databases.
2011-09-23
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2011-06-08
2,371 reads
Migrating VLDB with Log Shipping
You just had a great weekend. You go grab your coffee and before you take a sip a manager grabs you and says, "we need your help." We need to migrate a very large database to our new data center. We need to keep the data in sync and have a short period of downtime when we cutover.
2010-08-05
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Log shipping and A Control Mechanism
Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich has implemented a log shipping mechanism that can recover from failures and give you control over how it works. Read on if you want to implement your own version of log shipping and have control over all aspects of the process.
2010-07-01
5,946 reads
Zip Backups and Copy to Secondary (free)
We discovered a need to compress our backups so that we could copy the files over the network to the DR location (log shipping), to save on transfer time during emergency restores.
2009-06-18 (first published: 2009-06-05)
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Log Shipping Cannot Access the File
New author Brian Bitzer brings us a solution to a log shipping problem in the Real World. Read about jhow one DBA solves a contention issue using SSIS.
2009-01-20
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The Disabled Index
I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
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