Recently, my colleague came across a problem while trying to open the ‘Restore Database’ page in a SQL server database management tool , SSMS. Whether he right-clicked on the ‘Databases’ folder or on a specific database, the page wouldn’t open and eventually, he received an “out of memory” error message. Exception of type ‘System.OutOfMemoryException’ was … Read more
Snapshot replication distributes data exactly as it appears at a specific moment in time and does not monitor for updates to the data. When synchronization occurs, the entire snapshot is generated and sent to Subscribers. The snapshot process (which creates a copy of all of the objects and data specified by a publication) is also … Read more
For database migrations, DBAs many times configure log shipping from old server to new server to reduce the downtime required during the cutover. Below approach is followed to perform such migrations As in above approach, we offline our databases on primary instance , we can no longer remove the log shipping configuration using GUI through … Read more
Recientemente me enfrenté a un escenario muy interesante en el que para una base de datos se habilitaban tanto la captura de datos modificados como la replicación transaccional. Según la documentación de MS, ambas funciones pueden funcionar juntas, pero debemos tener algunas cosas en cuenta al implementar ambas funciones juntas en una base de datos. En … Read more
A client had a table which was storing data since 11 years, and he wanted to export all that data into csv files in a chunk of 15 days data per csv file. So I developed a PowerShell script to do the same. Hope it helps in different scenarios.
A medida que las bases de datos crecen cada vez más, un desafío al que se enfrentan los administradores de bases de datos es administrar el tamaño de sus bases de datos. Las bases de datos más grandes pueden consumir más espacio en disco, memoria y potencia de procesamiento, lo que puede resultar en tiempos de … Read more
Many times while trouble shooting backup issues on SQL server we have to check manually that when was the latest backup taken , where it was taken and for which all databases it happened . This requires a lot of manual clicks and script typing. To ease this , I have developed a script that … Read more
As databases grow larger and larger, one challenge that database administrators face is managing the size of their databases. Larger databases can consume more disk space, memory and processing power, which can result in longer backup and restore times, slower query performance, and increased storage costs. One way to address this issue is through data … Read more
What is Accelerated Database Recovery SQL Server 2019 introduced Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) as a new feature. ADR reduces the time it takes to recover a database from a crash or other failure. It accomplishes this by introducing a new recovery mechanism that greatly reduces the amount of time it takes to roll back transactions … Read more
Recently I was faced with an interesting issue where upon rerunning distributor agent, complete snapshot was being applied even though we had got “snapshot has been delivered successfully” message. The activity was about adding newly created tables into the replication. Below were high level steps followed for the activity. After step 5, once we got … Read more