Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached 'general availability' status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use.

For backups of Microsoft SQL Server databases, DBAs would be well served to turn to Imceda Software’s LiteSpeed 2005.

File system backups are like the cold backups in SQL Server 6.5 in 1998 when I was still an undergrad. Continuous archiving is closest to the basic SQL Server backup/restore process.

Idera’s SQLsafe — a backup utility for Microsoft SQL Server — was designed to compete directly with Imceda’s LiteSpeed. Similar to LiteSpeed, SQLsafe improves on native SQL Server backups ...

SQL Object Level Recovery Native consumes less disk space than restoring full data base backups and is licensed on a per-user rather than per-server basis.

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 ...

I have my SQL Server 2000 maintenance plan for my databases set to delete any transaction log backups older than 5 days. For most of my databases this is working, but for 2 databases this isn't ...

AWS released an update to its Relational Database Service (RDS) that allows users to take advantage of native SQL Server backup and restore functionality. AWS beat Microsoft Azure to market with ...

The SQL Backup Bundle includes the following tools: SQL Object Level Recovery Native for saving time and disk space when restoring native SQL Server backups.

In SQL Server 2005 and later, you can create a transaction log backup while a full or differential backup is occurring, but the log backup will not truncate the log due to the fact that the entire ...