SQL Backup Compression and Backup Dedup are mortal enemies
If you have a modern tape backup solution you probably have some sort of dedup process in your backup environment. What these deduplication processes do normally is look at the data which is being...
View ArticleHow to use the WITH MOVE when you don’t know the logical database file names.
When doing a database restore and you want to move the physical database files from one disk to another, or from one folder to another you need to know the logical file names. But if you can’t restore...
View ArticleHow HyperBac worked for me
I recently installed HyperBac on a clients SQL Server to reduce the amount of space needed to store their backups. Specifically we were looking to reduce the amount of space the log backups took, but...
View ArticleThere’s a little something to keep in mind when restoring a SQL replication...
So the other day I had to restore the SQL Server replication publisher. When I restored it I made sure to use the KEEP_REPLICATION option on the restore (also available in the SSMS UI) so replication...
View ArticleCloud probably isn’t going to be a very good backup solution for you
Back on July 19th, there was a blog post that I was pointed to which talked about tossing your backup solution and using cloud for your backup instead. Basically the points which are made are that...
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VMware’s vCenter and SQL Server Database Backups
VMware’s vCenter system uses SQL Server as it’s default database platform. One thing that needs to be looked into for a lot of VMware installations is the backup setup for the vCenter databases....
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Back To Basics: Why isn’t maintenace automatic?
One of the questions which I see pop up from time to time (especially when I used to work for a VAR that wrote software for small businesses) is why doesn’t SQL Server do the maintenance automatically?...
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Building a new CoLo – Part 1 of n
So if you follow me on twitter you might have seen this tweet a little while back. Since there aren’t many people out there that get the chance to buy and build a brand new data center from scratch, I...
View ArticleFiguring out how log shipping is doing
A lot of the time when doing data center migrations or system migrations I end up using Transaction Log Shipping to get the data from one SQL Server to another. I do this for a few reasons. It’s...
View ArticleMoving huge amounts of data between data centers
Every once and a while I get the fun project of moving a data center from one location to another, often from a Managed Service Provider to either a CoLo facility or to another Managed Service...
View ArticleBackup Databases on Creation
One of the companies which I work with has the occasion to create new databases when they do releases of their software. Normally this isn’t a problem, except that they are setup to use maintenance...
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Moving a Sharepoint Site Between Farms With Different Templates
A client came to be with a pretty scary problem. Their SharePoint site was totally down. The databases were there but the actual SharePoint farm was totally dead. All of the SharePoint tools said...
View ArticleBackups & the Buffer Pool
As we know with Microsoft SQL Server everything is processed from disk and loaded into the buffer pool for processing by the query engine. So what happens to the buffer pool when backups are taken?...
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Encryption and Compression
We have a variety of options when it comes to compression and encryption in SQL Server. When using both compression and encryption you have to understand how each of these work and when they wil lwork...
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