Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Idera’s SQLsafe — a backup utility for Microsoft SQL Server — was designed to compete directly with Imceda’s LiteSpeed. Similar to LiteSpeed, SQLsafe improves on native SQL Server backups with ...

Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!!! Your email has been sent Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim ...

For the past several weeks I’ve been doing nothing but complaining about vendors so I thought I’d take a break and write something about SQL Server for a change. So to that end today I’m gonna talk ...

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 ...