Problem
Maintenance plans are a great thing, but sometimes the end results are not what you expect. The whole idea behind maintenance plans is to simplify repetitive maintenance tasks without you having to write any additional code. For the most part maintenance plans work without a problem, but every once in awhile things do not go as planned. Two of the biggest uses of maintenance plans are issuing full backups and transaction log backups. What other approaches are there to issue transaction log backups for all databases without using a maintenance plan?
Solution
With the use of T-SQL you can generate your transaction log backups and with the use of cursors you can cursor through all of your databases to back them up one by one. With the use of the DATABASEPROPERTYEX function we can also just address databases that are either in the FULL or BULK_LOGGED recovery model since you can not issue transaction log backups against databases in the SIMPLE recovery mode.
Here is the script that will allow you to backup the transaction log for each database within your instance of SQL Server that is either in the FULL or BULK_LOGGED recovery model.
You will need to change the @path to the appropriate backup directory and each backup file will take on the name of "DBname_YYYDDMM_HHMMSS.TRN".
In this script we are bypassing the system databases, but these could
easily be included as well. You could also change this into a stored
procedure and pass in a database name or if left NULL it backups all
databases. Any way you choose to use it, this script gives you the
starting point to simply backup all of your databases.
Maintenance plans are a great thing, but sometimes the end results are not what you expect. The whole idea behind maintenance plans is to simplify repetitive maintenance tasks without you having to write any additional code. For the most part maintenance plans work without a problem, but every once in awhile things do not go as planned. Two of the biggest uses of maintenance plans are issuing full backups and transaction log backups. What other approaches are there to issue transaction log backups for all databases without using a maintenance plan?
Solution
With the use of T-SQL you can generate your transaction log backups and with the use of cursors you can cursor through all of your databases to back them up one by one. With the use of the DATABASEPROPERTYEX function we can also just address databases that are either in the FULL or BULK_LOGGED recovery model since you can not issue transaction log backups against databases in the SIMPLE recovery mode.
Here is the script that will allow you to backup the transaction log for each database within your instance of SQL Server that is either in the FULL or BULK_LOGGED recovery model.
You will need to change the @path to the appropriate backup directory and each backup file will take on the name of "DBname_YYYDDMM_HHMMSS.TRN".
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 |
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