AWS released an update to its Relational Database Service (RDS) that allows users to take advantage of native SQL Server backup and restore functionality. AWS beat Microsoft Azure to market with ...

SQL Server database backups in Azure, in either an IaaS or PaaS implementation, introduce several distinct features which may help optimize a backup plan. Of course, there are also a few drawbacks to ...

Database backups and restores are key to developing a secure environment for users’ information. A trusted backup plan is a requirement for on-premise and cloud instances. SQL Server database backups ...

Joey on SQL Server The Right Approach to Database Backups Elaborate backups might seem like a good idea at first, but they add unnecessary complexity to your recovery process.

Similar to LiteSpeed, SQLsafe improves on native SQL Server backups with compression, encryption, faster backups and restores, and lots of extras that make managing database backups easier.

For backups of Microsoft SQL Server databases, DBAs would be well served to turn to Imceda Software’s LiteSpeed 2005.

SQL Server database corruption is troublesome for DBAs, particularly if the situation arrives suddenly and there is no backup. This situation can lead to prolonged downtime and permanent data loss in ...

You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database ...

If you have not created backup or the backup file is not readable, then read this article to know the ways to recover deleted data from MS SQL Server without backup. Ways to Recover Deleted Data from ...

I've seen a few posts here and there with people talking about imaging their SQL Servers.I was wondering what you used to do that and the reasoning behind it.I assume the general idea is that if ...