Data loss can happen when you least expect it, whether from human error, system failures, or unexpected outages. That’s why having a reliable SQL backup strategy is essential if you want to protect ...

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 ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

There don't appear to be any logs for the backup operation - are they stored somewhere unexpected? I have noticed that on times when the service gets killed, the backup file for that day is much ...

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Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

, b.backup_size/1024/1024/1024 AS backup_size_GB , b.compressed_backup_size/1024/1024/1024 AS compressed_backup_size_GB ...