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Differential Backup Tricks

Differential backups are left out of many DBAs backup strategy, but they are a great tool to shrink your backup window, save disk space, and more. However they can be slightly tricky when you look to perform a restore. New author Qian Ye brings us an interesting issue that occured during differential testing.

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2006-06-14

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Further Your Career

Training is an important part of anyone's life in technology, especially if you are a SQL Server DBA or developer. With the release of 2005, the entire paradigm of working with SQL Server has changed and you need to be working on your own personal knowledge base. Steve Jones takes a look at how you can get training and shake the funding loose as well.

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2006-06-08

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