In hands-on testing, Intel QAT-enabled system sped up database backups compared to an AMD processor-based system with software compression SANTA CLARA, CA, UNITED ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

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 ...

“We’ve deployed Azure Arc across 2,200 of our database servers. It has helped us simplify the management of our infrastructure, and we now have better visibility into which versions of SQL Server ...

Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 137 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software. None of the weaknesses addressed this month are known to be ...

If you don’t have a backup of your MS SQL database, then follow the below ways to recover deleted data. Transaction log files record each change made to the ...

This article describes how to view or configure the `backup compression default` server configuration option in [!INCLUDE [ssnoversion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md ...

Abstract: Block level incremental backup is one in which successive copies of the data contain only the portion that has been changed since the preceding backup. It backs up only the blocks within the ...