Tuesday, March 20, 2012

MS SQL 2008 Standard does not support database compression


I thought is was a normal morning at the office . So, I check job history on all my sql instances and noticed that FULL backups were failing from the night before. Why you ask? Well , I added the compression as default to my sql server boxes backup plans the night before.
Microsoft doesnt even give you an error when adding compression to maintenance plans.
Moral of the story, dont trust that backups are working. Check them every day. You might say , just add a notification to task for failure. However, what if your SMTP is having issues also.
Check for errors in your jobs.

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