Microsoft added the option of using the Azure Backup service to provide recovery support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 when those workloads are hosted on Azure virtual machines.

This quickstart helps you understand how to write backups to and restore from the Azure Blob Storage. The article explains how to create an Azure Blob Storage container, write a backup to Azure Blob ...

The aim of this project is to design and implement an automated backup and recovery system for SQL Server databases, ensuring data integrity, availability, and minimal downtime. By establishing backup ...

While SQL Server 2014 CTP2 has built-in Windows Azure backup support, Microsoft plans to extend that capability to other "supported" SQL Server versions with the new SQL Server Backup for Windows ...

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 ...

According to Idera, its SQL Server database backup and recovery solution, SQL safe, helps database administrators increase backup compression up to 95% and is at least 50% faster than native SQL ...

The backup capabilities being offered for SQL Server may be extended at some point to other databases, such as IBM DB2 or Oracle, Schumacher said.

The successful enhancement of Microsoft SQL Server’s backup system under Ravi Mandliya’s leadership has set a new gold standard in enterprise database management.