You were in your favourite bar one Saturday night when, suddenly, you hear your mobile phone ring. You pick up the phone and heard the sound of a screaming voice on the other end (no, it’s not your wife telling you to go home and take out the trash). The background noise is preventing you […]
PostYour poor man’s SQL Server log shipping-PowerShell version
In 2008, I was privileged to be a part of a project to write a chapter for a book that was for a good cause. SQL Server MVP Deep Dives became an avenue for a lot of the SQL Server MVPs to share their expertise for the benefit of not just the technical community but […]
PostYou don’t trust your database backups? Use mirrored backup media sets in SQL Server 2005
What could be more frustrating than knowing that your database backups went missing? This is specifically true if you are dealing with transaction log backups which are dependent on log sequence numbers. You don’t want to lose a single transaction log backup in the chain. In previous versions of SQL Server, we just execute a […]
PostAutomating SQL Server 2005 Express Backups and Deletion of Older Backup Files
I’ve compiled a couple of my scripts – both TSQL and VBScript – to create a tip for MSSQLTips.com on automating backups and deletion of SQL Server 2005 Express databases to mimic that of creating a database maintenance plan. You can check out the article for more details. Feel free to post comments on the […]
PostLazy DBA: Backup all your databases using a script
I have a compilation of scripts which I use on a daily basis to help me make my work a bit easier. I always mention during my presentations that the laziest people are administrators who happen to have a programming background. Here’s one that I frequently use. A message on my instant messenger popped up […]
PostYour poor-man’s SQL Server Log Shipping
Transaction Log Shipping is a disaster recovery (sometimes called data recovery) option in SQL Server where you generate transaction log backups in the source database, copy them over to a remote SQL Server instance and restore them in read-only, standby mode. This feature is available in Enterprise Edition for SQL Server 2000 while SQL Server […]
Post>I wish this was available years back – SQL Server 2005 Always On Technologies Part 2
>One of the most underestimated feature of SQL Server is the FULL RECOVERY model in the database options. Database recovery models determine how much data loss is acceptable in case of a failure and what types of backup and restore functions are allowed. This has been an option which you can trace back from the […]
PostI wish this was available years back – SQL Server 2005 Always On Technologies Part 1
In response to requests made after I did a presentation on Microsoft TechEd Asia 2007 on SQL Server 2005 Always On Technologies, I’ve made the content available on my blog. In as much as we want to, there are not as many options in SQL Server 2000 to address disaster recovery caused by human errors. […]
