It has been a long journey to the final day my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, but we have finally reached the final post, day 31. My final topic for the series is born out of a conversation I had today with my good friend and fellow DBA, Ed Watson (blog|@SQLGator). today, I want … Read More →
It’s been a tough and long road to 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. It’s been very difficult coming up with quality topic ideas for the series as we near the end. For day 30 of the series, I am combining a post on performing piecemeal restores with a post on filegroups for T-SQL Tuesday #40 … Read More →
For day 29 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recover series, I want to talk about restoring replicated databases from database snapshots. Someone asked me recently if I had any recommendations for speeding up their unit testing on replicated databases. He has to run unit tests over and over on replicated databases to ensure that … Read More →
Welcome to day 28 of my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. Today I want to talk about recovering SQL Server if your tempdb drive suddenly dies. SQL Server won’t start if it can’t start up tempdb, so it poses a challenge if you can’t get the drive up and running again. If you missed … Read More →
Today is day 27 of my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery, and I want to talk about restoring a partial database to a server. If you have a very large database with many filegroups, and you need to restore just part of the database, then you can perform a partial restore (Enterprise Edition required) … Read More →
Welcome back for day 26 of my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. Today I want to share a tale of a mysterious backup that was running too long, and as the SAN admin reported, nothing had changed in terms of configuration of the SAN or our LUNs. We eventually tracked down the issue, and … Read More →
My series 31 Days of Disaster recovery has been on hiatus due mostly to illness. I’ve been battling a chest cold that became bronchitis. I’m still fighting cough, but even that has improved to the point that I’m now sleeping longer at night than night. It wasn’t so much that I was too sick to … Read More →
Welcome to day 24 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series. Previously, I’ve talked about several different forms of corruption: Nonclustered Index, Allocation Pages, and Tempdb. these were all fairly simple to fix. Today I’m going to dive into a scenario that is a little more complex, clustered indexes. Clustered indexes are the base … Read More →
It’s day 23 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, and today’s blog post is inspired from an email i received in response to day 20′s blog post The Case of the Backups That Wouldn’t Restore. A friend shared a story with me via email about a partial restore scenario that was very complex. … Read More →
The end of the day is quickly approaching as I finish this blog post. This is day 22 in my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery, and I want to examine which DBCC CHECK commands update the last known good DBCC check that is tracked in the header of the database. To check this value, … Read More →
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