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 backup and recovery as smooth as ...

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 ...

One of the very mundane, but extremely valuable tasks that any DBA must perform is the backup and restore of databases. In this post, we’ll look at a sample script that can backup databases on a given ...

If it is final full backup and no subsequent differential or log restores, you can run below code and skip the step #5 and step #6 If you want to restore a database to a certain point, restore the ...

Effortlessly probe for backup files within a folder recursively and restore the ones that you want to whatever point in time or to the latest log backup available, on an instance, either from scratch ...