A Backup Change

Steve Jones talks about backup of data today and the challenges of managing this at scale.

PARTIAL Restores

Backup Preparations

This week Steve asks you to make sure you practice your restore skills periodically.

Displaying Backup or Restore Progress

Have you ever started a database backup or a restore process that runs a long time then wanted to know when it will complete? Knowing when a database backup or restore operation will complete provides you valuable information, especially when you need to perform follow-on tasks that are waiting for the backup or restore process to complete.

Problems With Database Problems

The GitLab crisis has Steve Jones thinking about two things: competence and care.

Fix Commvault Backup Failures After an Upgrade

In this article, you will learn how to troubleshoot backup failures in SQL Server 2016 when you run using commvault backup tool

Backups Aren't Backups Until a Restore Is Made

Steve Jones comments on the Gitlab outage.

Introducing Minion CheckDB by MinionWare

Minion CheckDB completes the MinionWare maintenance and backups suite in style. Each solution is plug-and-play for the busy DBA, and deeply configurable for those shops with in-depth needs.

Five Useful SQL Server Management Practices

This article outlines five SQL Server capabilities you can use to enhance your efficiency as a DBA.

Extended Events for Tracking Backup and Restore Progress

Microsoft has introduced new extended events in SQL server 2016 which will give us detailed information about restore and backup process.