Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I hope to impart some quick, short tips that will help you make quick work of managing and administering your SQL Server databases. First up is an ...
Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached "general availability" status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use. This service is used to backup SQL ...
This article is a revised version of the original published January 3, 2005. See Editor’s Note for details. Two major factors drive database backups these days: compliance and disk space. Some ...
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Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...
Embarcadero Technologies on Monday is unveiling its DBArtisan Workbench 8.0 database administration tool, featuring enhanced backup capabilities for Microsoft SQL Server databases and support for ...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Gate Software has released a new tool called SQL Object Level Recovery Native that enables individual database objects to be recovered from native SQL ...
I have my SQL Server 2000 maintenance plan for my databases set to delete any transaction log backups older than 5 days. <BR><BR>For most of my databases this is working, but for 2 databases this ...