The blog topic might seem controversial and doesn’t go well with definition of log shipping features. Read it again. The blog has an alternative way to set up something “similar” to log-shipping. If the database is in simple recovery model, then we can’t take transaction log backups and hence no log shipping possible.
SQL Server – How to Get Column Names From a Specific Table?
Question: How to get column names from a specific table in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Incorrect Results with Decimal
It has been a while we have seen a puzzle on this blog and I keep on receiving emails and comments that you all would love to see one more puzzle. Let us see a new puzzle “Incorrect Results with Decimal”.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 3009, Level 16 – Could not Insert a Backup or Restore History Detail Record in the msdb Database
As most of my blogs, this blog is also an outcome of an interesting engagement with a client. While trying to help one of my clients to recover from a hardware failure, I learned something about a trace flag. Let us learn about backup or restore history.
What is Copy Only Backup in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #128
Question: What is Copy Only Backup in SQL Server?
Answer: This is another interesting question I received the other day. The question was in the image form and I am re-producing the image again here.
SQL SERVER – Error: Timeout (30000 milliseconds) Waiting for the SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) Service to Connect
I have been dealing with a client who observed that SQL services not starting up after a server reboot. When I asked them to check event logs, they found below timeout error.
SQL SERVER – Msg 3168, Level 16 – The Backup of the System Database on the Device Cannot be Restored Because it was Created by a Different Version of the Server
In the recent past, I have written a blog about Ransomware. Here is the link. system database – How to Protect Your Database from Ransomware?