With SQL Server 2000, there are myriad choices for backing up your database. Whether your database is small and changes infrequently or very large and changes rapidly, there is a backup strategy to ...

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 ...

Our server group wants to take over our SQL Server 05 backups for some reason. (Not sure why, our backups and restores work fine, so who knows why they want the change)<BR><BR>Anyway, came into work ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

I'm hosting a handful of websites on a windows shared host. They all use the webhost's SQL Server which is housed on a seperate box from the web server.<BR><BR>I want to automate backups of the ...

As mentioned in my post on VLDBs, one of the key pieces of a high performing solution is the use of Read-only Filegroups. If a significant part of your data is not changing, then why not tell SQL ...