Backup and restore

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Customized backup scripts(Arvinder & Srivathsani)

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Created By:Srivathsani M(Srivathsani_m@infosys.com)Arvinder Singh Khosla(arvinder_khosla@infosys.com)Details:The scripts gives the flexibility to create customized backups.1)It gives  the provision to give the backup files a customized name with customized time stamp.2)It allows the user to create the backup directory.3)These scripts can be used in the form of stored procedures by passing the variables defined in the script as […]

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2007-07-30 (first published: )

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Building Automated Backups in MSDN

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We write this script due we needed to implement a backup strategy in some machines with MSDE located in remote offices.In that offices there isn't Enterprise Manager, so we send the script to the office and they just execute it.Comments will be welcome

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2007-07-02 (first published: )

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Custom Log Shipping using VB.NET

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This is a first version of a custom solution for SQL Server log shipping using VB.NET 2005 and .NET Framework v.2.0. The script has to run on a server where you have SQL Server 2005 (or at least tools) installed because it uses new SMO. For some functions of the script you will have to […]

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2007-06-22 (first published: )

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BCP OUT all table data in your Database

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Data Recovery is vital. This script will cursor through your database and BCP OUT the table data to a directory specifically for each day of the week (in numbers - where 1 = Sunday and 7 = Saturday) in order to have table recoverability up to 7 days. The first step is to create the […]

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2006-05-11 (first published: )

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Backup Verification

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The following script runs against the current server and retrieves number of days since last full or differential and the number of days between them. it also retrieves the number of hours since the last transaction log backup.It currently returns a grid output.currently the script is under going changes to send XML back to an […]

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2006-05-22 (first published: )

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Server Backup History Report (updated 2006-04-11)

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Server Backup History Report (Full DB Backups only) 1. lists all databases with no backup history 2. lists last backup for other databases includes Date, User, Size, Duration, Age, Finish Date & Location Includes system databases Excludes TempDB Excludes backup history data where backupmediafamily.device_type = 7 these are typically created by Veritas BackupExec Tested on […]

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2006-04-28 (first published: )

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Restoring On Top I

I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?

USE Master
BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak'
GO

USE DNRTest
GO
CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT)
GO
USE master
RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACE

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