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 ...

Last time, we discussed the different backup types available in SQL Server. Now, let's take a quick look at some best practices when it comes to configuring those backups. Although there is no one set ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached 'general availability' status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use.

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

Executing SQL Server backups with PowerShell can give administrators script based control over backups, which is helpful when combining the backup process with other, non-SQL Server oriented tasks ...

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 ...

In SQL Server 2005 and later, you can create a transaction log backup while a full or differential backup is occurring, but the log backup will not truncate the log due to the fact that the entire ...

The SQL Backup Bundle includes the following tools: SQL Object Level Recovery Native for saving time and disk space when restoring native SQL Server backups.

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 ...

I have my SQL Server 2000 maintenance plan for my databases set to delete any transaction log backups older than 5 days. For most of my databases this is working, but for 2 databases this isn't ...