Whenever you hear a company with over 30 years of experience tell you facts from real life scenarios, you should hear what they have to say. Learn from others’ mistakes some say.
Our team has come up with 3 quick common database mistakes from working in world of the SQL Server database repair, performance and analysis.
40% of our assessment customers do not have adequate backups for their needs.
Close to 50% of these clients are at risk to loose it all or spend a large amounts of money to create what they lost. Don’t even mention the client/customer base loss and downtime incurred because they took that risk. You have backups, great. But are those backups the type you need?
Over 70% of the SQL Servers we assess, fail to perform proper database maintenance.
Maintenance is a tough one. It can sometime feel unnecessary or less important at the time. Or maybe you just don’t have enough time in the day. Without proper database maintenance you could find yourself with major performance issues leading to negative experience for your users therefore affecting your bottom line. And did you know improper SQL Server maintenance could lead to a possible cyber attack / ransomware attack? How do you feel about database maintenance now?
100% of all our major corruption repairs would have been repaired quicker and cost less if good backups were in place.
It is difficult to predict when corruption will happen to a database and I think that’s why good backups aren’t taken seriously. Sometimes all it takes is a lightning storm or a janitor who doesn’t know what he’s doing for corruption to hit. The best offence is your best defense against SQL Server corruption, and that’s good backups. The better backups you have the less downtime you’ll experience and the less money you’ll have to dish out.
We hope you learn from these mistakes of others rather than fall into a statistic.
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