It’s great that SQL writes to the Event log and SQL log every time a backup completes. You get to see lots of data saying that database master was backed up and database model was backed up, then that msdb was backed up etc… Is it really that useful? Well, at least it can be…
Month: April 2011
Adding LUNs In VMware – A Cautionary Tale
Over the last 10 years plus of being a DBA I’ve performed LUN manipulation tasks on dozens of occasions with no errors or problems. Other than adding new disks to Windows 2003 clusters I’ve never had to take SQL Server offline to perform these tasks either. A simple request I needed a new drive to…