Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure. SQL Server lets you disconnect a database from the main ...

A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

The task is to be able to copy a databases from production (and the source will always be production) down to staging or testing. Finally, all of these tasks need to be scriptable as SQL statements.

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 ...

I'm trying to recover an earlier version of a database from a tape. I've got the bak file and all of the TRNs in a folder on a different server (wanted to restore it to our testlab sql server). From ...