I could live with the auto-refresh if I could just figure out how to access the history to create custom reports.
I want to query the history directly to determine things such as how the duration, raw size, and compressed size of the t-log backups varies through the day.
I can query MSDB to get some of the information I need but right now the only way I see to get the Raw and Compressed size is to laboriously page through the constantly updating GUI which does not even sort in a useful order. I.e., if you sort by Type then the Date is unordered. If you sort by date, then the Full and Diffs are hard to find.
Direct, Read Access to the history database would solve this issue.
I want to query the history directly to determine things such as how the duration, raw size, and compressed size of the t-log backups varies through the day.
I can query MSDB to get some of the information I need but right now the only way I see to get the Raw and Compressed size is to laboriously page through the constantly updating GUI which does not even sort in a useful order. I.e., if you sort by Type then the Date is unordered. If you sort by date, then the Full and Diffs are hard to find.
Direct, Read Access to the history database would solve this issue.