In this post, we will see how we can implement a Smart backup strategy based on changes made in your database since Last Backup, this will help us in implement Smart backup strategy to decide whether your database changes require a differential backup or full backup and also reducing the full backup maintenance time
SQL Server 2008 introduced a DMV sys.dm_db_file_space_usage which is helpful to see the space usage details for each file in the database.
SQL Server 2017 adds a new column in this DMV named “modified_extent_page_count”, so that we can see how many pages are modified in the data file since last full backup.
Please see below query to see the usage of the new field, we are using that to calculate the percentage of pages changed in the file
SELECT database_id,
file_id,
filegroup_id,
total_page_count,
modified_extent_page_count,
((modified_extent_page_count * 1.0)/(total_page_count * 1.0)) *
100.00
[% of Pages changed]
FROM sys.dm_db_file_space_usage;
Based on the % of Pages changes or Count of pages changed, you can implement your backup maintenance script to determine the type of backup required, differential or full backup.
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