OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the number of ...

Using compression with SSMS is just as easy. Simply set the compression option on the Options page of the Back up Database dialog. You may be asking yourself: How effective is this compression? The ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Database backups and maintenance windows for very large database are very frustrating especially if we need to generate full database backups to initialize a database mirroring or ...