By Lori Brown | Backup and Restore , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server
I found out that I have been missing something from our regular database backups that I had no idea that I should have been using all along. I know about verifying your backup file and have incorporated into our standard maintenance routines one that will periodically test backups by restoring using VERIFYONLY. However, I totally […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Backup and Restore , Helpful Scripts , Log Shipping , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server
I have a client that uses a lot of disconnected log shipping on a few servers. They do this because they want to have a copy of their database that is actually hosted by software vendors for reporting purposes. So, disconnected log shipping it is! We pull down files that have been FTP’d to the […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Backup and Restore , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server
Recently I had a client who contacted me because all of the sudden the backup for a couple of databases started to fail. While those backups had been running successfully in the past they suddenly started failing with this message: With a little more digging he found more info. Here is more verbiage from the […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Backup and Restore , Database Mail , SQL Administration , SQL Server
According to best practices for a SQL environment, you should never place your test or development databases on a production server. However sometimes best practices are ignored, sometimes the DBA’s advice is disregarded (ahem…), or sometimes an organization simply does not have the financial resources to spin up separate servers for testing or development. Whatever […]
Continue readingBy Ginger Daniel | Backup and Restore , Log Shipping , SQL Administration , SQL Server
For years the SQL Agent service account on my client’s SQL Server instance ran the Maintenance Plans and SQL Agent jobs with no issues. Many of the SQL databases were set to Full recovery model, and Tlog backups executed on regular bases with no problems. The client decided to migrate to new hardware in a […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | Backup and Restore , Beginner , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server
We recently started using a third party software to do our in-house SQL backups so that the backup files are stored in a redundant and safe place. To confirm that the software was indeed compressing backups as it stated it would, we wanted to see what each backup size actually was in SQL so that […]
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