How to Backup a SQL Server Database
This post contains a demo on how to backup a SQL Server Database and includes some information on the types of backups available in MS SQL.
This post contains a demo on how to backup a SQL Server Database and includes some information on the types of backups available in MS SQL.
This post contains a SQL script to get estimated completion times and process information for your currently running database backups &
This is a post on how to get the last backup dates and times for all databases on a SQL Server Instance.
This post contains a script to help you get the last dates and times for when your databases were last restored in SQL Server.
Restoring a database in SQL Server is a straightforward task, and one that SQL Database Administrators have to perform thousands of times throughout their career.
If you’re running a SQL Server and you care about the data held in it, you should already be backing up the databases.
To backup a database in SQL Server with Encryption, run the BACKUP DATABASE command with the ENCRYPTION option added to the SQL statement, and specify the valid encryption certificate name.
It’s important to backup SQL Server Certificates, but only if you’re using them really.If for example, your SQL Server database backups are encrypted and you need to restore it on another server, then you will need both the certificate and private key that was used.
In this post I’m going to show what the WITH FILE = X option does when backing-up or restoring a SQL Server database.
Backing up a database is something I’ve always found easier done within a query window. There’s not much to it;BACKUP DATABASE [DATABASENAME] TO DISK = N'e:\directory\databasename_backupdate.bak'