Category Archives: Backups
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Can you take a differential backup of master?
2December 19, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher
In one of the sessions I attended during the Pass Data Community Summit the speaker asked “If master is in …
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SQL Homework – September 2021 – How good is your recovery plan?
Leave a commentSeptember 2, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Last month I had you create a security standards document. This month we are going to document our recovery plan. …
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SQL Homework – July 2021 – Log shipping
Leave a commentJuly 1, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Log shipping is probably the least complicated and easiest to configure of the various methods of creating a secondary copy …
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SQL Homework – April 2020 – Continuity planning.
3April 1, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Normally for April 1st I’d try to post something a bit more lighthearted but with the state of the world …
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Help! My restore has finished but the database still has a status of recovering.
Leave a commentJanuary 8, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been thinking about writing this for a bit and then a co-worker actually had this problem recently, so, well, …
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DBA Myths: Can a differential backup get bigger than the full backup?
7February 14, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
The thing about DBA Myths is that they are generally widespread and widely believed. At least I believed this one …
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What’s a differential backup?
2January 23, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Of the different basic types of backups (full, differential and log) I find the differential the most interesting, and frequently …
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Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds
Leave a commentDecember 10, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016 …
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My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)
5November 26, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
A while back I wrote about how to find where your backups are. And I’ve also written about I use …
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SQL Homework – September 2018 – Backup and Restore continued.
Leave a commentSeptember 3, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
In the very first SQL Homework post you were asked to take a backup. In fact it asked you to …
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