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.

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 ...

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 ...

The backup capabilities being offered for SQL Server may be extended at some point to other databases, such as IBM DB2 or Oracle, Schumacher said.

AlwaysOn encompasses high-availability and disaster recovery technologies that are also available in SQL Server 2012, including failover clustering and the use of active secondaries for backup.

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, has announced the latest version of its SQL Server backup and recovery solutions: SQL safe 6.4, SQL safe lite 6.4 and SQL ...

SQL Server 2014: Backup to the cloud A new feature, which first appeared in an update to SQL Server 2012, is the ability to back up a database to an Azure URL (blob storage) using T-SQL or PowerShell.

I have a SQL server that is freezing IO on all DBs 6 times per day at about 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and 10pm. These only freeze IO for approximately 2 seconds each time, but it is long enough ...

On October 7th, 2015 Microsoft announced the general availability of its Azure Backup Server. Azure Backup Server was previously known as Project Venus and targets backup scenarios for small and ...