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David Paul Giroux

David Paul Giroux is a DBA at Microsoft, where he supports hundreds of SQL Server machines for the Xbox Live and Zune online services. He's an MCITP: Database Administrator and MCITP: Database Developer for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 as well as a MCDBA for SQL Server 2000.
Email: davigi@microsoft.com

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Intelligent Backups Revisited

By David Paul Giroux, 11/02/2010

Previously, David Paul Giroux presented a solution for automating transaction log backups. Here are two more tools—a solution for automating differential backups and a script for ...

Intelligent Transaction Log Backups

By David Paul Giroux, 10/06/2010

Here's a transaction log backup solution that uses two SQL Server Agent jobs. Once you set it up, you never have to modify it because it intelligently executes. No matter whether ...

Pusher and QueryPusher Pick Up Where CMS Leaves Off

By David Paul Giroux, 08/25/2010

With the Pusher and QueryPusher utilities, you can execute queries, create objects, and perform actions against a list of SQL Server machines without the need for SQL Server ...

DBCC CHECKDB for Very Large Databases

By David Paul Giroux, 11/19/2009

Running DBCC can be problematic on VLDBs. Use the author's Admin/Worker Job approach to ease the process.

Utilities Assess Data-File Usage and Provide Commands So You Can Do Something About It

By David Paul Giroux, 07/14/2009

Here are two tools you can use to quickly determine the amount of free space in your databases' data files. Moreover, they provide commands that you can execute to decrease or ...