Kevin Hill comments on a recent Connect item by Ola Hallengren:
And his proposed solution:
Add a new column to sys.dm_db_log_space_usage or sys.database_recovery_status called LastLogBackupTime.I LOVE this idea…back up the T-log more frequently during busy times, less often during off hours. At my current client, there is almost nothing happening outside of a 12 hour workday window, so this would be perfect here.
Now, I am possibly misunderstanding Ola’s request or the intent…and that’s ok. This query from the msdb..backupset table already contains this info via a relatively short amount of code:
Click through for more details as well as Ola’s Connect item.