I recieved an email today from my publisher Joes 2 Pros that my book was now available on Barnes and Noble’s website in addition to Amazon in print and Kindle. This is very exciting. In just three months SQL Backup and Recovery has sold nearly 500 copies. I am still in awe that my name […]
Category: Backups/Recovery
PASS Summit 2012 – Networking
I was fortunate to attend my 4th PASS Summit. For the past 4 years I have flown out to Seattle Washington and attended the largest Microsoft SQL Server convention in the world. My first year was all about attending sessions and learning new things. Year two was about attending technical sessions and hanging out with […]
Scripting out users
Many of us know the importance of scripting out our users on a regular bases in order to be able to before DR restores more efficiently. If you are responsible for performing backup and restores or disaster recovery solutions and you do not have a routine to regularly script out your users and permissions, then […]
SQL Backup and Recovery
I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to write a book for Joes2Pros on a topic that is very important to me. As database professionals, few things are more important than being able to properly backup and recover our data. I had put together a presentation for user groups and SQL Saturday’s titled “Know […]
Reducing Your Storage Footprint Using SQL Storage Compress
I was asked to speak at SQL in the City in New York and Austin Texas. I have used many red-gate products in my time as a DBA but was not familiar with SQL Storage Compress until a couple of months ago. I did what any regular DBA would do, downloaded a demo and put […]
When Things That Are Supposed to Protect You Try to Kill You
This past week I was presented with a very unique issue. A call came in with a production issue on a tier one application. Unfortunately it was on a system that utilizes SQL 2000 SP4. Having a rather small toolset to use for support I had to rely on Perfmon, sysprocesses and the usual old […]
How to restore the tail end of a transaction log
Have you ever tried to restore a backup over an existing database and receive an error stating the tail of the log for the database has not been backed up? Many times if you are just restoring a database into a development environment you don’t care so you just restore WITH REPLACE and move on. […]
Find the version of the Master DB from a backup
Try researching recovering the master database online and you will see countless references to having to have SQL at the same version and builld level as the backup of the master database. Since most folks probably don’t have a routine in place to record the version number each time SQL server is patched we need […]