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 ...

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.

According to Idera, its SQL Server database backup and recovery solution, SQL safe, helps database administrators increase backup compression up to 95% and is at least 50% faster than native SQL ...

Our server group wants to take over our SQL Server 05 backups for some reason. (Not sure why, our backups and restores work fine, so who knows why they want the change)Anyway, came into work and ...

Joey on SQL Server Backups and Consistency Checks: The DBA's Top Priorities Database protection goes far beyond backups; ensuring the quality and consistency of those backups is equally important.

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.

I needed to copy the SQL Server database, with its most recent schema changes, down to my laptop for a client demonstration at a location where Internet connectivity might not be available. Even ...