SQL Server replication additional subscriber

September 15, 2021 Andy 0

Question I have a publisher with the distributor on the same server which is transactional replication. There is also an active subscriber using push method. I need to set a new subscriber up going to a different server using the same articles as the current … [Read More]

Always backup database with encryption

September 12, 2021 Andy 0

Question Is there a way to force all database and log backups run on the server to be encrypted? If encryption is not specified, the query will be terminated. asked 2021-09-12 by Avi Answer Not in SQL Server There is no option to force BACKUP … [Read More]

Partitioning and existing Indexes

September 12, 2021 Andy 0

Question I have a table that consumes almost 1.2 TB of space and has lots of historical data which are mostly irrelevant. Since performing bulk DELETE is going to cause a lot of heavy-lifting, I’m trying to use the concept of horizontal partitioning to create … [Read More]