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Scenario There is a common practice in the DBA world to work on a daily basis with back-ups and restoring of databases on different servers with different configurations. In an ideal world you would have the same collation and the same compatibility level on all your machines but for cases when this doesn’t happen here’s […]
Scenario I have to restore a production database to a development database on a weekly basis in order to refresh the environment. Currently, I’m doing this process manually. Is there any way to script this out so it can be automated? Check out this tip to learn more. Solution If you take full backups […]
Scenario proposal After recently upgrading a SQL Server instance to SQL Server 2012 a few days ago, you noticed that your application is not functioning properly. You decided to roll back the upgrade by downgrading the SQL Server database engine to SQL Server 2008 R2. After the downgrade of the database engine, you are unable […]
Scenario proposal Often databases are used with web-based interfaces and recording the IP address of the end user can assist with debugging, marketing, bandwidth planning and collation selection to name a few. In a scenario where each page access is logged, is there an optimal way to store IP addresses? Solution This tutorial will work […]
Scenario Proposal There are times when you need to loop through all the databases or database objects to perform some tasks. For example you want to run a DBCC command against all the databases or take backups of all the databases on the server or you want to rebuild all the indexes of all the […]
Scenario proposal A task that you may be faced with as a DBA is the need to refresh a test or development database on a periodic basis. This may be a scheduled process or it may be an ad hoc process. One of the things that you need to do when restoring a database is […]
