Idera’s SQLsafe — a backup utility for Microsoft SQL Server — was designed to compete directly with Imceda’s LiteSpeed. Similar to LiteSpeed, SQLsafe improves on native SQL Server backups with ...

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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 ...

Elaborate backups might seem like a good idea at first, but they add unnecessary complexity to your recovery process. Here are some things to keep in mind to make backup and recovery as smooth as ...

This project restores a SQL Server .bak backup and migrates its contents to PostgreSQL with pgloader. The entire environment runs through Docker Compose and produces a summary for every migration. The ...

Microsoft held many of its database announcements until after the Business Applications Summit in Atlanta, helping to keep the focus on announcements at the conference. Arpan Shah, general manager for ...