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MAP Toolkit Licensing Continued
Continuing yesterday’s post regarding the licensing issues I discovered using the MAP Toolkit, I was able to resolve the issue without much difficulty. The license was showing in the MAP Toolkit as...
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Red Gate Backup Pro Update After A Weekend of Jobs
Last week I blogged about my experiences implementing the Red Gate Backup Pro and Virtual Restore. Today I have a few more observations and items that I need to investigate. We setup a weekly...
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Red Gate Backup Pro Continued (Part 7)
If you have been keeping score at home, I have been trying to work out the issues of implementing the Red Gate SQL Backup Pro and Virtual Restore. This series may sound like a bunch of complaints,...
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Red Gate Backup Restore of the Master Database (Part 8)
One of the errors I encountered with the Red Gate Backup Pro tools discussed extensively this month, was in running the DBCC CHECKDB command on a temporarily restored backup. It gave errors about the...
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Creating a Red Gate Backup Pro “Virtual Restore” Job Automatically (Part 9)
If you have been playing along at home this month then you know about some of the struggles that I have faced with automating the Red Gate Backup Pro automatically. Well, with the help of Red Gate and...
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Red Gate Virtual Restore Scripting (Part 10)
If you have been following along since December, then you know that I have been doing some investigation with the Red Gate Backup and Restore bundle to implement in our system with our use of Ola...
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Point In Time Restores
One of the many skills needed by DBAs today is the ability to restore a database from backup using point in time recovery. This option is only available if you are using the full or bulk-logged...
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Restoration Options
Today I was asked what the difference was in some of the restoration options. Thus, I thought this would make a good blog post as it is somewhat confusing in the beginning. On the options page of the...
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SQL Features Discovery Report
While going through my preparation for the MCSA exam I stumbled upon this gem that I always seem to forget about so I thought I would pass it along to you. For a quick an easy way to determine what is...
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Need to Predict Backup Sizes?
Someone showed me a neat trick a little while ago that I thought I would pass on. The problem is I wrote down the trick but not who told it to me, so if you are reading this and you think it was you...
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SQL Nexus, Read Trace Errors Resolved!
Reblogged from SQL Swampland: Last Monday we started our SQL Nexus journey together in order for me to refresh my knowledge of this awesome tool. Near the end of last week, the blog series was...
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Migrating SQL Server Database Logins with sp_help_revlogin
Reblogged from SQL Swampland: You've migrated your database to a new box, with no problems. You created the login that goes with this database, and all is right in the world. However, when your user...
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Restoration Recovery State Options
(Editor’s note: I just discovered that this blog did not post on 2013-Feb-06 as it was originally intended) Yesterday, I was asked what the difference was in some of the restoration options. Thus, I...
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HyperBac No More
In case you missed it last week, Red Gate announced the death of the HyperBac tool for backup and recovery. I am not surprised by this move as the features were pretty much the same as the Backup Pro...
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SP_SpaceUsed for Disk Space Monitoring?
Recently, I heard about a couple of developers that were using the stored procedure SP_SpaceUsed to monitor available disk space. They had requested additional disk space because the utility had told...
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MAP Toolkit in Action
I have written in the past about the MAP Toolkit (Microsoft Assessment and Planning) and how it helps with licensing issues including core counts. With that being said, it is time for us to renew our...
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Backup and Recovery Documentation
Today I began documenting my backup and recovery strategy for my servers. If you have not documented your strategy, take my advice and do it. This should include the following items: Retention...
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Online Restores
I was doing some mentoring today with online restores, so I thought I would share it with my blog readers. The most important thing about online restores is that it is only supported in SQL Server...
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Are Those Transaction Logs Empty?
Ever wonder what your usage statistics are for your transaction log files without opening each individual one in the SQL Server Management Studio shrink file dialog. DBCC SQLPERF is a neat little...
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SQL Server Migration Assistant Problem Solved
Having used SQL Server Migration Assistant for a major Oracle conversion project over the last year, I quickly grew aggravated with its project limitation involving a single database. In other words,...
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