As a DBA, establishing a reasonable backup schedule for your databases can be a challenging project. It requires you to balance two competing demands: the need to take image copy backups frequently ...

Several scenarios and reasons exist for regularly backing up an Exchange Server database, from data corruption to accidentally deleting files to system crashes to cybersecurity attacks. Microsoft's ...

Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to schedule the backup of a SQL database while the SQL Server is running?

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 ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

Data plays a vital role in any successful business. Protect­ing this data is mission-critical, and it falls to database administrators (DBAs) to organize, maintain, and secure it. The most effective ...