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Hi all,
Good day!
Let me take a moment to explain what I am looking for.
I am purely into DBA management activities and never written a script in my tenure. I have been assigned to production database migration. We have about 5K to 6K small, medium and large sized databases which needs to backed up from SQL 2008 R2 / 2012 and then
restored on SQL 2016 servers.
The process which I am following right now is manual - take a backup and restore it on the new server. Then change the compatibility mode, remove orphaned users and give permissions on the new DBs and finally complete DBCC CHECKDB ().
This process may look simpler and tidy, however, when there are endless number of databases in question, then this process may not seem feasible. No matter how fast we try to do this, it will end up eating a lot of time (weeks) since we only have 2 DBAs to
perform this activity.
I searched on google to find out if there are any scripts which I can use and I tried the below one:
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/5465/automating-a-sql-server-database-refresh/
The only limitation with this script is that, it can only restore the DB, if we define the Disk Drive on target server. In our environment, the space on the Disks keep on changing and I want to find a script that can query the Server's Disk space first and
then move the data files in those drives, which have sufficient space.
I am able to create SQL agent job to take backups. But I am wondering if anyone could help me in figuring out a way to Automate the RESTORE process as below:
1. Query the disk space on Target server to find which disk has enough space to accommodate .mdf', .ndf & .ldf
2. Calculate/Verify if the current DB backup can fit into any of the disks - without defining the disk name/letter. If yes, then restore the database.
3. Create a SSIS job to include all the DBs which need to be backed up/migrated.
Let me know if you need any other information from my side.
Thanks in advance!
Justin L