Author Craig Outcalt gives advice on preparing for the worst with a look at what you should consider putting in your disaster recovery plan and why.  Read more...

Planning for disaster recovery and business continuity aren't amongst the most exciting IT activities. They are, however, essential and relevant to any Database Administrator who is responsible for the safety and integrity of the companies' data, since data is a key part of business continuity.  Read more...

The hack on a Gizmodo writer using Amazon and Apple customer service security holes was shocking. Steve Jones notes that while security is important, backups are even more important.  Read more...

This editorial that was originally published on Aug 15, 2007. It is being rerun as Steve is traveling. This editorial looks at the issues that happen in production and how you should perhaps plan for disasters.  Read more...

This article will show you one way to quickly restore SQL Server replication with huge tables.  Read more...

An outage at SQLServerCentral reminded Steve Jones that it's not "if" a disaster will occur, but "when" it will occur that should have you preparing for a disaster at some point in the future.  Read more...

Now and then my colleagues and I find our selves in the middle of a discussion about SQL Server Mirroring...  Read more...

This white paper discusses how to reduce planned and unplanned downtime, maximize application availability, and provide data protection using SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn high availability and disaster recovery solutions.  Read more...

It’s surprisingly easy to set up the new AlwaysOn features. I’ve done it on VMs running on my laptop, from...  Read more...

In this article we will see how to rebuild system databases in SQL Server 2008 cluster that is failed to restart.   Read more...

This article shows you the process which you require to regain your sysadmin access.  Read more...

This article describes the requirements to log ship databases between workgroup computers  Read more...

Try researching recovering the master database online and you will see countless references to having to have SQL at the...  Read more...

This editorial was originally published on Feb 5, 2007 and is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. Is this the advice you'd give, or take, in a DR situation? Steve thinks it's not.  Read more...

This article covers how to use robocopy with SQL Server Agent to copy database backup files to another server.  Read more...

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Planning for disaster recovery entails a lot of different items, but testing is an important one. If you don't test your plans, you can't be sure they will work. This Friday Steve Jones asks how often your test.  Read more...

We had a requirement where we were asked to generate automatic email notification in the event of a failover.   Read more...

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Author Craig Outcalt gives advice on preparing for the worst with a look at what you should consider putting in your disaster recovery plan and why.  Read more...