2018-05-21
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Backup
Do you check your backups?
Backups. Are you confident you can restore? Do you have a process that ensures you can recover your systems? Learn how one system works in the cloud.
2018-04-19
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Script - All Jobs (powershell/SMO)
Script powershell/SMO que gera os scripts de DROP/CREATE para cada JOB existente na instância
2018-04-16 (first published: 2018-04-13)
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Configuring Backups Using Veritas Netbackup with AGs
A short description of our experience with Veritas Netbackup on MS SQL Server AG Groups. This article does not give a full description of the procedure for configuring netbackup but highlights a few pitfalls which we think some people will find very useful.
2017-07-18
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2017-06-23
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2017-06-05
968 reads
Powershell Script for regular DBA activities
This script will perfrom following tasks :
1. BackUp DB
2. Restore DB from BackUp File
3. Restore DB from DB
4. Create a new DB from Existing Db
It takes care of all the possible failures during these operations, while done manually.
2017-01-11 (first published: 2017-01-09)
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2016-12-08
995 reads
Reading Backup History Information for a Database
There are times when you might want to read backup/restore history information to identify a backup’s start and finish date/time, the location where the backup was written, the size of the database backup, etc. Greg Larsen shows you how to do this in SQL Server.
2016-10-31
4,425 reads
2016-06-28
1,361 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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