Tag Archives: Backup/Recovery

Transactionally Consistent

Posted on November 6, 2013 by way0utwest

What does this mean? I had someone ask me in a session recently, and I think I have a good explanation, but I thought this was worth a blog. Transactionally Consistent means that there is a snapshot of the database … Continue reading →

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Risky Backups

Posted on October 30, 2013 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Jan 13, 2009. It is being re-run as Steve is away at the SQL Intersection conference. The other day I was working in the forums at SQLServerCentral and saw a question about someone doing backups and … Continue reading →

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It Still Happens – Full Transaction Log

Posted on October 17, 2013 by way0utwest

Probably the most often asked question on SSC is about full transaction logs, and often full disks. It happened again recently. I don’t have an exact count of threads, but rough searches show this to have 70,000+ results, when most … Continue reading →

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The Need for Tape

Posted on October 1, 2013 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Mar 26, 2009. It is being re-run as Steve is away at DevConnections. One of our SQLServerCentral authors sent me this post, which I found to be pretty amazing. Apparently hackers broke into a backup server at … Continue reading →

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