Tag Archives: Backup/Recovery

A Backup Change

Posted on September 13, 2017 by

Backups are a fundamental skill for most DBAs, and hopefully, for most technology professionals. For developers, I’d hope that most of you use some sort of version control, and that you back up your VCS database. I actually had someone … Continue reading →

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Backup Preparations

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

I’m sure that many data professionals recognize the importance of having backups in the event of some issue. Many of you will schedule these as soon as you create a database, and then not think much of the process, ignoring … Continue reading →

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Backup Plans for Data Loss

Posted on June 22, 2017 by

The British Airways computer failure has been on my mind for a few weeks. It seems like such an epic failure in 2017 from a high public company that many, many people depend on. I still struggle to believe the … Continue reading →

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Restore a BACPAC–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on June 1, 2017 by

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I needed to get the WideWorldImporters sample database for a project and noticed that there was a BACPAC available. … Continue reading →

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Restore to a point in time–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on May 25, 2017 by

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is also a part of a basic series on git and how to use it. One of the … Continue reading →

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Create a BACPAC–#SQLNewBlogger

Posted on March 15, 2017 by

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. One of the things that you might encounter at some point is the need to create a BACPAC. This … Continue reading →

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Problems With Database Problems

Posted on February 13, 2017 by

Gitlab had a database problem recently. I’m sure you read about it. There have been commentaries from many people, including Brent Ozar and Mike Walsh. There are many ways to look at this outage and data loss (the extent of … Continue reading →

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T-SQL Tuesday #85–Cross Version Restores

Posted on December 13, 2016 by

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, and this month Ken Fisher hosts. His topic is backups, and while I’m sure there will be plenty of views on backups, I wanted to touch base on a relatively simple item. This is the monthly … Continue reading →

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A New Recovery Tool for Your Toolbelt

Posted on November 15, 2016 by

Those of us that administer databases and are responsible for ensuring the integrity and availability of data know that being able to restore systems is a core skill. In the SQL Server world, this should mean more than just being able to … Continue reading →

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The Google Solution

Posted on November 11, 2016 by

I was watching a talk from Google on how they back up their data. After all, one of the biggest assets Google has is the tremendous amount of data that they have collected over the years. There are many systems … Continue reading →

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