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 ...

If you don’t have a backup of your MS SQL database, then follow the below ways to recover deleted data. Transaction log files record each change made to the ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

This article describes how to view or configure the `backup compression default` server configuration option in [!INCLUDE [ssnoversion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md ...

Using SQL Server Machine Learning Services with Azure OpenAI helps businesses save money and securely leverage the products they already have. We are excited to share that there are several ...

# Behavior of compressed backups when you append backups to an existing media set This article introduces the behavior of compressed backups when you append backups to an existing media set. One of ...

As always, I learnt a lot at the SQL PASS Summit. One resource I discovered was the Microsoft Customer Advisory Team or SQLCAT for short. This is a Microsoft team of consultants that helps customers ...

OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the number of ...

This article is a revised version of the original published January 3, 2005. See Editor’s Note for details. Two major factors drive database backups these days: compliance and disk space. Some ...

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 ...