Introduction – Mirrored Backup
This article is based on a real life experience of the author while working with database backup and restore during his consultancy work for various organizations. We will go over the following important concepts of database backup and restore.
Conventional Backup and Restore
Spilt File Backup and Restore
Mirror File Backup
Understanding FORMAT Clause
Miscellaneous details about Backup and Restore
I maintain a spreadsheet of questions sent by users and from that I single out a topic to write and share my knowledge and opinion. Unless and until I find an issue appealing, I do not prefer to write about it, till the issue crosses the threshold. Today the question that crossed the threshold is – what is the difference between NORECOVERY and RECOVERY when restoring database and what is the restore sequence.
I assume you all know that there are three types of Database Backup Models, so we will not discuss on this commonly known topic today. In fact, we will just talk about how to restore database that is in full recovery model. Let us learn about backup timeline.
Just a day ago I received a question from a reader who just installed SQL Server 2008. After the installation user did not find any sample database along with installation. The user wants to install the sample database which he is very much used to. Let us learn about Sample Database AdventureWorks.
About a year ago, I wrote SQL SERVER – Shrinking Truncate Log File – Log Full. I was just going through some of the earlier posts and comments on this blog and one particular comment by Praveen Barath caught my eye. It is a very good explanation. I am copying complete explanation here with full credit to the original author.
I really enjoyed writing about SQL SERVER – 2005 – Create Script to Copy Database Schema and All The Objects – Stored Procedure, Functions, Triggers, Tables, Views, Constraints and All Other Database Objects. Since then the I have received question that how to copy data as well along with schema. The answer to this is Database Publishing Wizard. This wizard is very flexible and works with modes like schema only, data only or both. It generates a single SQL script file which can be used to recreate the contents of a database by manually executing the script on a target server.
Following script can be used to detach or attach the database. If the database is to be from one database to another database following script can be used to detach from old server and attach to a new server. Let us learn about how to Attach and Detach Database.
