Tracy Boggiano

Tracy is the Database Superhero for ChannelAdvisor. She has spent over 20 years in IT and has used SQL Server since 1999. Tracy covers all aspects of administration and deals heavily with performance tuning and high availability and disaster recovery. Tracy is a co-organizer of a Special Interest Group (SIG) dedicated to advanced DBA topics in our local user group TriPass. She is also the founder of http://WeSpeakLinux.com. Before she worked full-time as a DBA she was formally a developer and network administrator. She also tinkered with databases in middle/high school to keep her sports card collection organized.

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The Backup File Extension

I run this command in SQL Server 2022. What is the extension of the backup file? 

BACKUP DATABASE HerdofTwo TO DISK = 'HerdOfTwo_20240501'

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