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
11,798 reads
2014-08-15 (first published: 2014-07-16)
1,536 reads
Display all errors thrown within a catch block by a restore statement in a stored procedure using extended events
2014-06-10
3,728 reads
2014-06-06
1,610 reads
Restore script for moving databases from prod to dev with different path / logical name etc.
2014-08-14 (first published: 2014-05-30)
5,725 reads
usefull script for moving databases from one server to another
2014-04-23 (first published: 2014-03-29)
921 reads
Script to restore the entire databases from the backup directory just by passing the backup directory.
2014-08-22 (first published: 2014-02-25)
3,265 reads
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)
1,258 reads
2014-02-21
2,197 reads
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
4,001 reads
By Steve Jones
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By Steve Jones
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