Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I hope to impart some quick, short tips that will help you make quick work of managing and administering your SQL Server databases. First up is an ...

SQL backup is an essential process in eCommerce website migration and database management. It ensures that you can restore your data in case of hardware failures, data corruption, or accidental ...

Manage and monitor backed up SQL Server databases This article describes common tasks for managing and monitoring SQL Server databases that are running on an Azure virtual machine (VM) and that are ...

So I recently aquired a few SQL Server 2000 boxes to admin, and I really don't have much experience with the platform. I've been looking at backup options, and it seems that there's 3 options.

Learn about the concepts, requirements, and components necessary for SQL Server to use the Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as a backup destination. This topic introduces the concepts, requirements and ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...