While I was at the PASS Summit 2010, I’ve spent a fair amount of time at the Ask-the-Experts table on high availability, disaster recovery and virtualization. Conference attendees with different requirements on high availability and disaster recovery come to these tables and ask questions. I’ve spent a fair amount of time doing high availability and […]
PostBroken BACKUP and RESTORE sequence?
Have you ever had the to scratch your head because your database backups won’t work even if you are practically sure that you have tested them properly? Imagine this – you have a regular FULL and DIFFERENTIAL database backups working together as part of your backup process. Your FULL backups run every Sunday and your […]
PostSo you can recover from database snapshots…but…
SQL Server 2005 has given us the option to create database snapshots to create a point-in-time image of the database. This gives us the option to restore from a point-in-time in case of user errors, like maybe accidentally truncating a table. MSDN has provided us a procedural approach on how to restore from database snapshots. […]