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Databases have the nasty habit of growing to mammoth sizes with continued usage over years. And it is common knowledge that databases that grow too large become prone to problems such as corruption, mismanagement etc. It thus becomes important to keep tabs on their growing sizes before they reach the
» Read moreThe msdb database is system database used by SQL Server Agent for scheduling alerts and jobs. msdb.dbo.backupset – Contain the information concerning the most-granular details of the backup process msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily – Contains the metadata for the physical backup files as they relate to backup sets Using the above mentioned tables,
» Read moreIn the previous post, we have scheduled automatic backup in SQL Server 2012 – Part1. As we have scheduled daily backup of database and backup file will be generated every day. It is a good practice that to delete backup files after a certain period of time as per requirement.
» Read moreYou know it is very important to back up your SQL server database backup on the regular basis. So in this post, we will see how to schedule automatic backup in SQL server 2012. We will go step by step to schedule so that we all can understand each and
» Read moreBackup compression was introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. At installation, backup compression default is set to 0, which makes backup compression off by default. To change the default to COMPRESSION, set backup compression default to 1. To revert the default to NO_COMPRESSION, set backup compression default back to 0.
» Read moreWhile restoring the SQL database error occurred… Through UI following error occurred Through Script following error occurred Script: RESTORE DATABASE mydb FROM DISK = 'D:\ DB Backup\mydb.bak' WITH MOVE 'mydb_Data' TO 'E:\Database\mydb.mdf', MOVE 'mydb_Log' TO 'E:\Database\mydb.ldf', REPLACE GO Msg 3203, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Read on “D:\ DB
» Read moreSometime we faced the following error message while restoring the database Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database. Solution: Use WITH REPLACE while using the restore script as Script 1 RESTORE DATABASE YourDB FROM DISK = 'C:\YourDB.bak' WITH REPLACE Script 2
» Read moreMy friend wants to restore the SQL 2008 full backup to SQL Server 2005. He faced an issue while restore the SQL 2008 full backup to SQL Server 2005. He has a question from me as: Can we restore the SQL 2008 full database backup to SQL Server 2005? Answer:
» Read moreIt is very common practice to create an exact copy of the database backup and store it to different places so that in case any emergency or misfortune, DBA should have the alternative location to find the backup of databases. Once a full backup is accomplished DBAs generally copy the
» Read moreDatabase backup are insurance policy for a database, we need to ensure that backups created are valid and useful. To validate the backup, we can use following command Restore verifyonly from <backup device> When a backups is validated, SQL Server performs the following steps Calculated a checksum for the backup
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