Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, ...

Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!!! Your email has been sent Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim ...

In the past, the question of how to perform auditing under SQL Server has had a simple answer: Do it yourself. But now, SQL Server 2000 has eased the burden of auditing by introducing an extensive and ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

I have visions of regularly dumping and clearing Windows event logs and storing them in the medium-long term in a SQL database.<BR><BR>Why? So I can query them -<BR>"Show me all previous occurances of ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Microsoft at its Tech Ed conference in San Diego on Tuesday will tout plans to add data encryption to its SQL Server database and seek federal government security certification for the platform as ...

I mentioned NetIQ's new SQL Management Suite of integrated SQL Server management products last issue. This time around, I got the chance to give it a spin. Here are some impressions of the new pieces ...