Comments on: SQL Server and AntiVirus

By: hlx

hlx — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:28:30 +0000

You can also exclude .mdf, .ndf, and .ldf files as long as you haven’t ever used non-standard file names. You will not want to have AV scan your db files in real-time as this will significantly hamper your db performance and if AV ever does catch something (real or not), it will veru likely corrupt your db in the process of trying to stop it from writing to disk or quarantine the file.

By: icecubbe

icecubbe — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:58:42 +0000

Yes everyone is correct,

1. AV has to been installed for sure
2. Get all the directories that needs to be excluded from you sql admin
3. As Jinteik mentioned, also check that the AV is set so that it doesn’t take up all the resources on your server.

By: jinteik

jinteik — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:37:08 +0000

for my side, I exclude the folders that holds the SQL data. if you are scanning the data and it is being accessed, there will be bound to problems to happen.

one more thing you could do is to not allow it to take the maximum resources while scanning. this is what i implemented at my work place

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:26:27 +0000

I think it is a good idea as long as the directories where the datafiles reside are excluded from the scans.

But I’m not a SQL Server expert…