Databases With No Recent Backups

I've written the script below to easily identify databases that have not had backups taken within a certain amount of time. This could be useful if you need to build your own monitoring. However, even if you use a third party monitoring tool,as I do, it is helpful to run this query on the server for which I've received an alert.

Many of the servers I manage have a large number of databases. The alerts I receive for overdue backups are database specific. But, in general, if one database is overdue, chances are something has happened on the server. So this query can give me a quick overview.

Running DBCC CHECKDB on TEMPDB

First, a confession. I've been doing it wrong for a long time. Only recently have I learned that TempDB should be included in regular CHECKDB maintenance. Ok, now that I've got that off my chest, I can continue.

So now I've been diligently setting up this task on all servers. NB: TempDB is not available within Maintenance Plans, so you'll need to write the tsql in a job. I add it as a second step in my dbcc maintenance plan job.