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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 ...

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - Feb 14, 2013) - Idera, a leading provider of application and server management solutions, today announced the availability of three new free tools for both SQL Server DBAs ...

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 ...

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.

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

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 ...

MSP360, a leading provider of backup, RMM, and remote access software for MSPs and IT departments, announced the release of MSP360 Backup 8.6, featuring expanded implementation of Object Lock — the ...

I'm backing up SQL databases directly to a UNC path. Smaller (e.g. <5GB) work just fine, larger databases (this particular one is ~27GB) fails. Here is the log file ...