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 ...

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I'm hosting a handful of websites on a windows shared host. They all use the webhost's SQL Server which is housed on a seperate box from the web server.<BR><BR>I want to automate backups of the ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. last week began letting SQL Server users who have Software Assurance contracts set up fail-over databases at no extra cost, a new policy that some customers said could give Microsoft ...

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