Stay Backed Up by Monitoring Your Backup Process

Based on a linked server setup, you can check your SQL Server backups on multiple instances.

Backup all SSAS databases using TSQL

Enumerates and backups all SSAS DB's

Backup history details EMAIL (past 24 hours) in HTML format

Get backup status email daily to your inbox in HTML format.

Be Careful Using LiteSpeed Extended Stored Procedures With SQL Agent

It’s uncommon that a SQL Server DBA needs to create a customized backup and restore routine for an application using combination of LiteSpeed extended stored procedures. However, you should be really careful when you are implementing such a solution.

How to Identify and Backup the Latest SQL Server Database in a Series

I have to support a third party application that periodically creates a new database on the fly. This obviously causes issues with our backup mechanisms. The databases have a particular pattern for naming, so I can identify the set of databases, however, I need to make sure I'm always backing up the newest one. Read this tip to ensure you are backing up your latest database in a series.

Dynamic Transaction Log Backup

Backup up all transaction logs based on sys.databases.

Dynamic Database Backup

Backup up all databases based on sys.databases.

11 Tips to Backup databases with SMO, VB, C# Powershell, Command lines

Sometimes we need to create backups using code. Sometimes we need to do it manually or automatically, programmatically using C#, VB, Powershell.

Backup Compression

Backups, What Are They Good For?

We've heard the confessional story from Pixar that Toy Story 2 was almost lost due to a bad backup, but sometimes there is no 'almost'. Grant Fritchey casts a sympathetic eye over some catastrophic data losses, and gives advice on how to avoid what he has termed an RGE (résumé generating event).