SQL Server security best practice

Security! This is the word comes in mind of every concerned person when it come...

10/21/2013

MSDB– cleanup is necessary

Recently I have been asked to work on the task which is to reduce the size of MSDB database. The MSDB has grown to 20 Gigs. Well, you would say, what is the big deal with that? 20 gigs is not considered a big for database. Correct, but for MSDB, yes it is. So, the question is - why the size has grown this much, and what would be the adverse impact it would have on the performance on my system? I would say, there could me many reasons,...