SQL Server is at the heart of your company; if it goes down, the results could be catastrophic. However, despite its importance, many IT admins don’t have a solid backup and restore plan in place.

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 ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached "general availability" status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use. This service is used to backup SQL ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...