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.

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David Paul’s Recent activity

Intelligent Backups Revisited

Nov 02, 2010

In "Intelligent Transaction Log Backups," I presented an automated solution for backing up transaction logs. I've also developed a solution for automating differential backups of databases and a script that lets yo...

Intelligent Transaction Log Backups

Oct 05, 2010

Designing a backup strategy for transaction logs is simple in concept. However, various scenarios can cause the design to be more complex than anticipated. For example, what if you have a mirrored database that ...