Microsoft Corp. last week began letting SQL Server users who have Software Assurance contracts set up fail-over databases at no extra cost, a new policy that some customers said could give Microsoft ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, has announced the latest version of its SQL Server backup and recovery solutions: SQL safe 6.4, SQL safe lite 6.4 and SQL ...

In this white paper, we investigate the SQL Server database backup options in Azure Virtual Machine. We start by explaining the uses and importance of backing up databases. We continue by discussing ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

As we’ve come to expect from new SQL Server releases, SQL Server 2012 has so many new features that it’s impossible even to mention them all. Nearly everyone is well served, from the BI-hungry users ...

Microsoft has introduced SQL Server 2012 to the world and it's time for IT professionals to start to come to speed on what's new. Microsoft has introduced SQL Server 2012 to the world and it's time ...

Microsoft made available for download on September 20 a Customer Technology Preview (CTP) test build of a first update to its SQL Server 2012, the latest version of its database. Microsoft released to ...