I remember seeing the SQL log and going "WTF???!!!!!" Basically it would make a copy of the database or something really weird and then do the backup and then delete the copy. I don't recall the ...

How you back up your database depends three factors: how the database is delivered to you, the backup logistics of the database, and the recovery time objective (RTO) and the recovery point objective ...

There’s little disagreement that today’s enterprise database management is a highly complex, laborious task impacted by a variety of issues. Database administrators and managers need to focus on ...

I'm backing up SQL databases directly to a UNC path. Smaller (e.g. <5GB) work just fine, larger databases (this particular one is ~27GB) fails. Here is the log file ...