Learn how to set up, configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and use log shipping, a technique that creates and maintains standby databases for a primary SQL database.

For our new production environment, we're going to be using SQL 2005 and do log shipping from our main machine to a secondary machine. Part of this environment will include a migration process ...

The recent versions of Microsoft SQL Server include several high-availability solutions like failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping and replication.

That’s it. That’s all the powershell code it takes to query for your last backup times. Now, there are tons of other properties you can query at the DB level that are just as easy.