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Here’s a quick and easy formula to help show upper management how much your backup compression strategy is saving the company.
Let’s assume your original non-compressed SQL backup file is 100MB. After you enabled compression your compressed backup size is now 5MB. Plug in the numbers below and you get: Continue reading “Calculate Database Compression Ratio”
I was fortunate enough to attend Paul Randal’s and Kimberly Tripp’s IETPO1 this past Spring. During the week long training I met Tim Radney (he’s a SQL Consultant at SQLSkills). I approached him, introduced myself and as we were talking, the subject of SQL Server backups came up. I explained my work’s current backup strategy and how I’d like to make it more efficient, both in speed and disk space. Tim suggested I enable the instance-wide backup compression option in SQL Server Management Studio (see image below) Continue reading “SQL Server Database Instance-Level Backup Compression Setup”
Recently at work we had an issue where a SQL login account’s password expired and the application that uses that login stopped working. The Window’s password policy for our organization requires passwords to expire after 60 days. Continue reading “SQL Server Email Alerts Setup”
Recently at work, I came back from lunch to my coworkers yelling,
“We’ve been looking for you! You need to restore the database!”
I was extremely surprised and caught off-guard by the verbal attack. I tried my best to keep my cool, even though my heart was racing fast, and asked for further explanation as to why I should “restore the database?”
They replied, “We can’t connect to our application!” Continue reading “With All Due Respect…”
There are always people you come across in life that stand out from others. They are the ones that end up becoming life long friends.
In terms of my professional career, there are two people that I credit for being a DBA and starting this blog. Continue reading “People You Meet Along The Way”
Looking back, I don’t remember a time that I ever liked to write. I was the kid in school that always took forever to write a paper because it was “never good enough.”
With some encouragement from my friend Tim Radney, I decided to take the plunge and travel down the road of blogging. I do work full time as a SQL Server DBA so most of my posts will be centered around things I learn everyday at work.
Like the title of this blog says, I’m starting out with “baby steps” but hopefully I’ll be up and running very soon!