Do you have a BackupExec SQL Agent CAL?<BR><BR>You can't (well, shouldn't) back up the MDF/LDF files directly. If you have the CAL, BackupExec will use VSS to do a snapshot and backup a consistent ...

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 ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached "general availability" status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use. This service is used to backup SQL ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...

Although there are options such as server mirroring technologies, files can still be damaged on the mirrored copies of the server. You should always do a daily backup. I prefer to do a full backup, ...

You probably have a backup strategy for the local files on your computer, but for a business operating a website, protecting the data on your website is just as -- if not more -- important. In cases ...

Usage of our Exchange server has grown over the past several years. The time needed to back up the Exchange server has continued to grow but the time we have to back it up hasn’t. What are our options ...

So I'm trying to figure out when I should be backing my transaction logs relative to my full/diffs. It seems like right after would be when I'd want to have the checkpoint happen, or does it really ...

SQL Server 2005 also promises better performance. I didn’t run performance benchmarks for this review, but in addition to allowing DBAs to partition the database to balance load, Microsoft has done a ...

Let’s start by admitting that the title of this article is a tease. It’s a valid question and one that thinking people ask all the time. But in truth it’s not the first question you should be asking.