You can take backups of databases from SQL Server on Linux with many different options. On a Linux server, you can use **sqlcmd** to connect to the SQL Server and take backups. From Windows, you can ...

Restore SQL Server databases on Azure VMs This article describes how to restore a SQL Server database that's running on an Azure virtual machine (VM) that the Azure Backup service has backed up to an ...

Restore a full database backup to your target location, in norecovery mode, which allows additional differential and transaction log backups to be restored to that database.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

Here, Knowledge Center contributor Brent Ozar outlines seven actions database administrators can perform to build a sound database backup and recovery strategy.

The restore command will take considerably longer than the backup command, so please make sure to give it time. And that's all there is to backing up and restoring a database for your website.

Good afternoon! So I've had a case open with Microsoft since October concerning SQL databases that I cannot restore from DPM unless I run a consistency check on them first. Today, it seems they ...