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It takes a lot more coordination and cooperation between SAN, VM, Network and Database administrators when there are performance problems than a DBA with a physical machine. Definitely a...

I think you have the MPServer database, which, you are trying to restore, specified in the "Database" text box in the job step definition. That would run the job...

Thanks Steve.

This is a really interesting topic. While security is a serious risk, I think the next biggest concern with keeping data in the cloud is that if the company...

Always run a verification. It is also a real good idea to run restores periodically.

One of the worst feelings I have had was pulling a backup from...

I have been running a full backup with format, then transaction log backups to a single file. That file then gets picked up by our backup job that backups...

Backups are key, but just before the backups its the integrity check (DBCC CHECKDB). I have spent way too many hours trying to fix corrupt databases for clients that...