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...

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This is a real-time production issue I faced with one of our clients  Read more...

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Do you plan for failure as a possibility or a probability? The difference might mean you take your plans and testing a little more seriously. Steve Jones notes that you might want to plan on the latter.  Read more...

Functionality to help maintain a Disaster/Recovery (D/R) Environment synchronized with production is introduced and the associated challenges are discussed.  Read more...

How to rebuild your master database quickly and safely.  Read more...

Multi-subnet Failover Clusters I want to take a closer look at one of the new features in SQL Server Denali. While...  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones has a DR poll. He asks what might be more important to you in a disaster and why.  Read more...

I have installed and uninstalled several instances of SQL Server in the past. Today, I need to uninstall a SQL Server 2008 R2 clustered instance. I have never uninstalled a clustered instance of SQL Server before. Can you provide a how-to guide to uninstall a clustered instance of SQL Server 2008 R2?  Read more...

Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy discusses the need to consider personnel when you are planning for things to go wrong.  Read more...

I'm needing to audit the permissions in my databases, but I want to script them out so I have something to run in case of a recovery situation. I've got the logins, roles, and users handled, but it's the permissions that I want to extract. How can I do this easily?  Read more...

Today Steve Jones reminds us that the small disasters are likely to occur, and that you need to be sure that you're planning for them, and practicing for the recovery that will be needed.  Read more...

Take your peers out of their comfort zone and do you know how well they'll perform?   Read more...

Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich has implemented a log shipping mechanism that can recover from failures and give you control over how it works. Read on if you want to implement your own version of log shipping and have control over all aspects of the process.  Read more...