Many DBAs back up their user databases, but not their system databases. Whatever the reason for the lack of a backup, John Grover explains how to save yourself (mostly) should you ever find yourself with no viable master database and no good backup.
2014-07-24
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2014-08-15 (first published: 2014-07-16)
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Display all errors thrown within a catch block by a restore statement in a stored procedure using extended events
2014-06-10
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2014-06-06
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Restore script for moving databases from prod to dev with different path / logical name etc.
2014-08-14 (first published: 2014-05-30)
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usefull script for moving databases from one server to another
2014-04-23 (first published: 2014-03-29)
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Script to restore the entire databases from the backup directory just by passing the backup directory.
2014-08-22 (first published: 2014-02-25)
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Script to get the Database restore history details including with the files by which the database is restored.
2014-03-17 (first published: 2014-02-25)
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2014-02-21
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Mike Eastland frequently restores production databases to various development servers. The drive layouts between the servers are almost never the same. He is constantly shuffling files on his development servers due to space constraints, which in turn breaks the automated restore scripts because the MOVE clauses are invalidated. Does he have to use the MOVE clause every time he does a restore?
2013-12-05
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By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
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