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Monday, May 13, 2013

Maintenance Plan Blunders - 1

Maintenance Plans seems to be some what popular with novice DBAs simply because you don’t have to think much to configure a Maintenance Plan.

However, today I came across with two “interesting” cases. I will explain one of them today.

This is one of them.

 

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According to this plan, it take a full backup and just after the full backup , it takes a differential backup!!!

Differential backup will contain all the modified data pages after the last full backup. Since these plans are running on mid-night, it is highly unlikely, you get any modifications after the full backup.  This means that you should have a differential backup for a different plan.

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