2025-04-30
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Backups
“But I don’t need to back up that database.”
Brent Ozar shares four stories of people who thought they could avoid backups - and got burned.
2018-05-04
5,663 reads
Backup File Inventory
Are you using Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution? Here's a Python script that helps you keep track of your backup file inventory.
2016-01-25
2,492 reads
Generic SQL backup with Azure support
Generic SQL backup with Azure support allowing several, handy backup options.
2016-01-29 (first published: 2016-01-21)
382 reads
Backup Growth Trend Check
-- Backup Growth Trend Check To Understand how much disk space you need in future
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-06-02)
1,282 reads
2015-02-19
9,683 reads
2016-02-05 (first published: 2014-05-15)
3,286 reads
2014-05-30 (first published: 2014-05-05)
1,453 reads
Backup to the Cloud: The Silver Lining
Offsite backups are vital to data integrity, allowing for preservation and backup of data in catastrophic circumstances. Cloud backups have been around for a while, but are now really coming into their own. Tony Davis looks at how to get set up with cloud backups for restores and disaster recovery.
2013-09-16
2,399 reads
2013-03-26 (first published: 2013-03-15)
791 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers