summary You can use SnapCenter to restore backed-up SQL Server databases. Database restoration is a multiphase process that copies all of the data and log pages from a specified SQL Server backup to a ...

EPM administrators have long relied on downloadable Maintenance Snapshots (Artifact Snapshot. zip) as a flexible, self-managed backup mechanism. These archives allowed teams to store backups locally, ...

One of the very mundane, but extremely valuable tasks that any DBA must perform is the backup and restore of databases. In this post, we’ll look at a sample script that can backup databases on a given ...

You can use SnapCenter to restore backed-up SQL Server databases. Database restoration is a multiphase process that copies all the data and log pages from a specified SQL Server backup to a specified ...

If your SQL Server “backup strategy” relies entirely on VM snapshots, your Recovery Point Objective may not be a decision. It may simply be an accident. This is something I encounter regularly when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...