One of the very mundane, but extremely valuable tasks that any DBA must perform is the backup and restore of databases. In this post, we’ll look at a sample script that can backup databases on a given ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

Microsoft SQL Server version migrations are one of the more difficult activities for a DBA to execute, yet they are a very common change to the infrastructure. Databases eventually have to be migrated ...

We currently have a SQL 2008 server running as a VM. We backup nightly using Veeam and my consultant also advise we backup on top of that via BackupExec. Lately, our Backupexec jobs have been running ...

With SQL Server 2000, there are myriad choices for backing up your database. Whether your database is small and changes infrequently or very large and changes rapidly, there is a backup strategy to ...