T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party for the SQL Server community. It is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (b|t) and this month’s edition is hosted by Wayne Sheffield (b|t) who has asked us to write about “What Were You Thinking?” – things we have seen that left us scratching our collective noggins.
The list is long, so I’ll just go with something I saw yesterday. And in September. Both created by a full-time DBA at a client.
BACKUP LOG MyDatabase TO DISK = 'E:\SQLBackups\MyDatabase.trn' WITH INIT
Yep. It runs hourly. And initializes the .trn file each time. Goodbye Point in Time recovery.
Ick.
Bonus points: Duplicate indexes, which I will cover in a future post.
Thanks for reading!
