RDS for SQL Server provides full database backups, not incremental, and these backups can be encrypted through integration with the AWS Key Management Service. Native backups use the standard SQL ...

Azure Backup for SQL Server gives organizations the ability to perform "one-click point-in-time restores." Microsoft also is promising that a 15-minute recovery point objective is supported by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visit the Red Gate web site to review the company’s entire range of SQL Server backup tools. The site offers expert articles, ROI analysis, customer feedback, walkthroughs, demos, reviews and ...

Sean McCown is a Certified Master in SQL Server and a SQL Server MVP with 20 years of experience in databases. He is founder and co-owner of the website MidnightDBA.com, where he records free SQL ...

I have my SQL Server 2000 maintenance plan for my databases set to delete any transaction log backups older than 5 days. <BR><BR>For most of my databases this is working, but for 2 databases this ...

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 ...