Thanks for the kind words, guys!

Sorry for the delay. My wife went into labor a week early so I've been busy with newborn things for my first child 🙂

You're welcome. I started...

Makes perfect sense now. Thank you, all, for the replies and information!

Mike

Hi Anil,

You stated:

Since we have several passwords that do not meet the minimum security standard of SQL Server, we will now use pw-inspector to...

Thanks for the responses. My thought was to just implement a complete backup strategy (checkdb, full, diff, t-log) for each of the databases (as if they weren't even in an...

Hey all,

Thanks again for all of the great discussion. Not to beat a dead horse here, but I'm curious--let's say that my primary and secondary replicas are not...

Thanks for the replies! I checked the difference of the large diff backup's first and last lsn and it's:

999757148000000

The second, smaller one is:

95500000

Beatrix,

Good thought. I checked and, as expected, they're both compressed. Also, the same job is what I ran manually and what ran on a schedule, so nothing changed...