This service is used to backup SQL Server when the relational database management system is housed on Azure datacenter virtual machines. Organizations might want to have an Azure "cloud-based ...

The company also introduced an “infrastructure-less,” pay-as-you-go data protection service called Azure Backup for SQL Server, allowing customers to back up SQL Server databases running on ...

If you have accidently deleted data from database tables in MS SQL Server, you can restore the deleted data (tables) using Log Sequence Number (LSN). But for this, you need the transaction backup file ...

As I have recently discovered though, you can use a PowerShell script to back up a SQL Server Express database. Before I show you how to perform such a backup, there are a few things that you ...

SQL Server lets you disconnect a database from the main server program, allowing you to make safe backup copies or send data to branch offices.

SQL Server Backup Types New! Welcome to this new series of columns for working with SQL Server. First, let's talk backups. By Eric Johnson 10/08/2007 Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I ...

I needed to copy the SQL Server database, with its most recent schema changes, down to my laptop for a client demonstration at a location where Internet connectivity might not be available. Even ...

Brent Ozar is Quest Software's SQL Server domain expert and a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. Brent has a decade of broad IT experience that includes systems administration, project management and ...

SQL Server 2005 databases are set to the Full recovery model by default, so you may need to start creating log backups even if you haven’t ran into problems yet.

When you run a full database backup, everything in your database is backed up. This is the most basic form of backup in SQL Server and is required in order to use the other two types. Full backups are ...