I'm doing some web development contract work this summer, and my scenario/task is this. The environment is broken up into Production / Staging / Testing / Local Dev All environments are running MS SQL ...

2 Totally Different Ways To Do SQL Server Backup & Recovery By Nick Mueller, Zetta.net This post is about how traditional database backup products work and how Zetta's new SQL server backup feature, ...

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 ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 comes with its own backup and recovery utilities. Though they work, there are a number of annoying limitations. For instance, you can't back up directly to a UNC path, and ...

Microsoft today announced the availability of its SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) version for testing. The product, first announced in June, continues much of the technologies of ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...