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When I am writing monitoring/alerting stored procedures for my SQL Servers, its important to have those alerts be well-formatted. I like to minimize the amount of time I spend sorting through emails & alerts, and part of that is making sure that I can …
Continue readingQuestion I have a database which is in always-on high availability mode synchronized with another database on a different instance. How can I restore from a .bak file into the primary database using T-SQL? I’m new to high availability and I’ve been advised …
Continue readingAt this job, we used transactional replication extensively with dozens of publications pointing at multiple subscribers. We wanted to migrate the publisher without having to re-snapshot all of the publications. This is how we did it.
Continue readingAt work, we make extensive use of views & synonyms. The reasons are complex (and fodder for another post), but here’s a simplified example: Pricing data is updated multiple times per day, and we want to keep multiple generations of the pricing table online. By …
Continue readingQuestion I need a quick clarification on copy-only backup vs full backup as it pertains to transaction log numbering and restore if required. I have SQL Server 2012 setup with always on for multiple databases. The availability groups are setup with preferred …
Continue readingQuestion I've centralized my farm's jobs in MSX, covering about 70 instances of SQL Server. Seemingly randomly, at least once a week, several instances will stop accepting instructions. Within the MSX window Manage Target Servers, instead of all instances …
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