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 ...

Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I hope to impart some quick, short tips that will help you make quick work of managing and administering your SQL Server databases. First up is an ...

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So theres a bit of debate at work by my TL and one of the senior Software Devs at my work.<BR><BR>SWDev hates Backup Exec's SQL Agent, think its not at all useful when you have SQL experience on hand.

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Gate Software has released a new tool called SQL Object Level Recovery Native that enables individual database objects to be recovered from native SQL ...

Red Gate Software on Thursday introduced new software that allows individual database objects in SQL Server 2009, 2005 and 2000 to be recovered. SQL Object Level Recovery Native consumes less disk ...

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 that ...

For the past several weeks I’ve been doing nothing but complaining about vendors so I thought I’d take a break and write something about SQL Server for a change. So to that end today I’m gonna talk ...