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.

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

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 ...

Elaborate backups might seem like a good idea at first, but they add unnecessary complexity to your recovery process. Here are some things to keep in mind to make backup and recovery as smooth as ...

Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) has released a new version of LiteSpeed for SQL Server, which now offers multi-instance backup management so DBAs can easily apply consistent backup strategies ...

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 ...

Spread the loveIn an age where data is king, its sudden loss can feel like a devastating blow, potentially crippling ...

We've had wicked good luck with Veritas. I dunno, but so far so good. I'm extremely happy with the results. God good do I hate ArcServe, all versions of it. ArcServe 2000 has a bug in it such that ...

Microsoft is having a re-think about its SQL Server strategy and in particular about what it wants to do with SQL Data Services. Part of the company’s Azure services platform, SQL Data Services, it ...