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About Jugal Shah

Jugal Shah has 19 plus years of experience in leading and managing the data and analytics practices. He has done the significant work in databases, analytics and generative AI projects. You can check his profile on http://sqldbpool.com/certificationawards/ URL.

How to be DBA?

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Dear Readers,

I have added a new page to SQLDBPool.com which will guide you for your DBA career.

You can post your comments or DBA Career related question on that page.

Thanks, Jugal Shah

What is .TUF file in Log Shipping?

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TUF file is a Microsoft SQL Server Transaction Undo file. .TUF File contains the information regarding any modifications that were made as part of incomplete transactions at the time the backup was performed.

A transaction undo(.TUF) file is required if a database is loaded in read-only state. In this state, further transaction log backups may be applied.

Script to Monitor the progress of ALTER, Backup, Restore, DBCC, Rollback and TDE commands

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We often like to check the progess or completed percentage of time consuming command. You can query the sys.dm_exec_requests DMV to check the status of the command.

You must have atleast view state permission to execute the below query.
ALTER INDEX REORGANIZE
AUTO_SHRINK option with ALTER DATABASE
BACKUP DATABASE
DBCC CHECKDB
DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP
DBCC CHECKTABLE
DBCC INDEXDEFRAG
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE
DBCC SHRINKFILE
RECOVERY
RESTORE DATABASE
ROLLBACK
TDE ENCRYPTION

SELECT dmr.session_id,
       dmr.status,
       dmr.start_time,
       dmr.command,
       dmt.TEXT,
       dmr.percent_complete
FROM sys.dm_exec_requests dmr  CROSS APPLY sys.Dm_exec_sql_text(dmr.sql_handle) dmt WHERE dmr.command IN (‘ALTER’, ‘Backup’, ‘Restore’, ‘DBCC’, ‘Rollback’,  ‘TDE’)