Monday, 4 May 2015

The transaction log for database '...' is full due to 'LOG_BACKUP'.

USE [master]
GO 
ALTER DATABASE  <db Name> SET RECOVERY full 
GO
ALTER DATABASE <db Name> SET RECOVERY SIMPLE WITH NO_WAIT;
GO

Thursday, 16 April 2015

All database backup to directory

DECLARE @name VARCHAR(50) -- database name 
DECLARE @path VARCHAR(256) -- path for backup files 
DECLARE @fileName VARCHAR(256) -- filename for backup 
DECLARE @fileDate VARCHAR(20) -- used for file name


-- specify database backup directory
SET @path = 'C:\Backup\' 


-- specify filename format
SELECT @fileDate = CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),112)


DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR 
SELECT name
FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases
WHERE name NOT IN ('master','model','msdb','tempdb')  -- exclude these databases


OPEN db_cursor  
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name  


WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0  
BEGIN  
       SET @fileName = @path + @name + '_' + @fileDate + '.BAK' 
       BACKUP DATABASE @name TO DISK = @fileName 


       FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name  
END  


CLOSE db_cursor  
DEALLOCATE db_cursor