This quickstart helps you understand how to write backups to and restore from the Azure Blob Storage. The article explains how to create an Azure Blob Storage container, write a backup to Azure Blob ...

Allow the Azure datacenter IP ranges: Allow the IP ranges in the download. To access network security group (NSG), use the Set-AzureNetworkSecurityRule cmdlet. Deploy an HTTP proxy server to route ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

Creating a full database backup in SQL Server is essential for preserving your data and ensuring you have a reliable restore point in case of system failure, corruption, or migration. A full backup ...

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Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...