A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...

The task is to be able to copy a databases from production (and the source will always be production) down to staging or testing. Finally, all of these tasks need to be scriptable as SQL statements.

I've been scratching my head about this for quite some time and can't quite figure it out. I have a share on Server1 (Windows 2008 R2) and Server2 (Windows 2012 R2) that I use to store SQL backups ...