AWS released an update to its Relational Database Service (RDS) that allows users to take advantage of native SQL Server backup and restore functionality. AWS beat Microsoft Azure to market with ...

SQL Server lets you disconnect a database from the main server program, allowing you to make safe backup copies or send data to branch offices.

You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database ...

PowerShell offers a lightweight and efficient solution for backing up SQL Server Express databases on local workstations without the need for full system backups.

Database backup and recovery is becoming more difficult and complicated, especially with today's explosion of data growth and the increasing need for data security. Here, Knowledge Center ...

You've automated the SQL database backup process; now, let's restore in auto mode. Here's how to do it with PowerShell.

Optimizing Database Backup Strategies Once the costs and benefits have been weighed, it’s time to optimize the database backup strategy. First—and most importantly—DBAs should restore data­bases ...

Today, DiscountASP.NET has exposed methods for customers to backup their SQL 2005 and SQL 2000 databases.