I'm trying to recover an earlier version of a database from a tape. I've got the bak file and all of the TRNs in a folder on a different server (wanted to restore it to our testlab sql server). From ...

The old server was sent back to the leasing company a month ago. I will have to contact them and try to get it back hoping they did not sell it or wipe the drives yet. One of our oracle admins told me ...

A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

SQL Server is at the heart of your company; if it goes down, the results could be catastrophic. However, despite its importance, many IT admins don’t have a solid backup and restore plan in place.

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...