Thursday, October 25, 2012

Automated Scheduled Backup, MS-SQL Server 2008

MS SQL server 2008 has integrated automatic backup solution (both full and differential). Following links explains quite easy how to setup a scheduled backup and clean up (delete old backup files).

http://weblogs.asp.net/sreejukg/archive/2010/01/20/scheduling-automated-backup-using-sql-server-2008.aspx

Friday, October 19, 2012

Uptime on a windows server

To find out the current up-time on a server simply open the windows task manager and read the up-time from Performance tab.



Opening Windows Task Manager, without Ctrl+Alt+Delete

If you do not have the chance to press Ctrl+Alt+Del and you still need to open Windows Task Manager, try right clicking on the task bar and pressing the choice : "Start Task Manager".

Do not try searching for it, because you won't find it. Been there, done that, doesn't work :-P