{"id":368,"date":"2016-06-23T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s1095387061.online-home.ca\/?p=368"},"modified":"2016-08-21T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:24:40","slug":"mssql-tips-tip-29-sql-server-database-decommissioning-check-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/mssql-tips-tip-29-sql-server-database-decommissioning-check-list\/","title":{"rendered":"MSSQL Tips: Tip #29 &#8211; SQL Server Database Decommissioning Check List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Different companies have various requirements and processes for database or database server decommissioning. In this tip we have provided steps that will help you decommission a database and make sure you have a good back-out plan (for example, in case there is a need to bring the database back online). We have also provided scripts that will help you identify dependencies in case there is a need to migrate the database instead of decommissioning.<\/p>\n<p>You may already have a process documented, but this list will help you review most of the dependencies and make sure you are prepared for either a migration or decommissioning.<\/p>\n<p>Please read my\u00a0latest MSSQL Tip: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mssqltips.com\/sqlservertip\/4333\/sql-server-database-decommissioning-check-list\/\">SQL Server Database Decommissioning Check List<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all of my tips here: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.mssqltips.com\/sqlserverauthor\/94\/svetlana-golovko\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mssqltips.com\/sqlserverauthor\/94\/svetlana-golovko\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mssqltips.com\/sqlserverauthor\/94\/svetlana-golovko\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different companies have various requirements and processes for database or database server decommissioning. In this tip we have provided steps that will help you decommission a database and make sure you have a good back-out plan (for example, in case &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/mssql-tips-tip-29-sql-server-database-decommissioning-check-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,7,41,3,4,30],"tags":[18,120,32,42,16,29],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dba_checklists","category-dba_doc","category-sql_maint","category-scripts","category-sql_server","category-sql_server_config","category-tips-sql_server","tag-decommissioning","tag-migration","tag-mssql-tips","tag-mssqltips","tag-sql-server","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databaserefresh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}