Azure SQL DB Failover Group Orphaned Users
I have a client that resides in the Azure data platform arena, focusing mainly on Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Azure SQL DB. They have a decent landscape of Azure resources and currently utilize failover groups within SQL DB to facilitate high availability. Under the covers, failover groups are essentially Availability Groups and have […]
Getting Your SQL Server Backup Footprint
Recently, I needed to be able to determine the total size for all the most recent full backups for certain servers. Luckily for me these particular servers were using Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Solution which simplified things since each back up had it’s own specific directory. Powershell has the flexibility to easily provide what I need […]
SQL Server 2008 End of Support D-Day
As the saying goes, time flies when you are having fun. We are already on the 2nd half of June in 2019 and if you were not aware, extended support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP4 and 2008 R2 SP3 ends on July, 9th, 2019. Previous service packs for each product have already since expired […]
Don’t Forget RoboCopy
On occasion you have to find means to get around an issue. Recently at a client I discovered that an unknown SQL Server that wasn’t being properly cared for. This particular instance wasn’t taking backups and it was deemed as a critical production server. You can begin to see the problems that were arising. However, […]