Point in time restore to a new DB from files of a Full Recovery Model
Script generator to restore to a new DB. Designed on Ola Hallengren's backup solution.
2011-05-31 (first published: 2011-05-20)
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Restore
2011-01-14 (first published: 2010-12-28)
1,534 reads
2010-11-29
2,614 reads
Restore All Backups
SCRIPT TO RESTORE BACKUP FOR ALL DATABASES, PLACED IN FOLDER CALLED
ORIGIN_FOLDER, WITH THE INITIALS 'DBVF' AND EXTENSION '.BAK'
2010-06-30 (first published: 2010-06-08)
2,825 reads
2009-01-21
3,515 reads
Using Page Level Restore as a Disaster Recovery Procedure in SQL Server 2005
In a previous tip on Disaster Recovery Procedures in SQL Server 2005 Part 1, we have seen how we can come up with a disaster recovery procedure in SQL Server 2005. There are other ways to increase availability of your highly critical database in SQL Server 2005. What are those other options?
2008-12-31
2,725 reads
Automatically Restore Backup Files for SQL 2005
This script helps with restoring backup files SQL Server 2005
2008-12-31 (first published: 2008-12-11)
1,603 reads
Restore database with all necessary files
It creates the script for restoring your database with all the backups (full, differential and transaction log) needed.
2012-10-16 (first published: 2007-12-27)
5,014 reads
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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