Disaster Recovery Preparations

What You Need To Know About DR Testing

Practice makes perfect. That’s true of everything, including disaster recovery. If you aren’t already testing your DR plan, you should be - here’s what you need to know to get started.

Big Power Issues

The British Airways IT disaster showcases some poor technology architecture.

Step by Step Configuring AlwaysOn with Log Shipping

In this article, I will show you a procedure to combine SQL Server AlwaysOn with logshipping and to make log-shipping to work even in case of failovers between availability replicas in primary site.

Backups Aren't Backups Until a Restore Is Made

Steve Jones comments on the Gitlab outage.

Broken tempdb

Clownpocalypse and DR

Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is out of town at the PASS Summit. Grant looks at disasters and being prepared.

Why Log Shipping is still a viable solution in 2016

An explanation as to what Log Shipping is and why it's still a viable solution in 2016.

Streamline Log Shipping Failovers: DR Made Just For You…

A look at a SQL script solution that can help you easily fail over and back from log shipping scenarios.

Why PolyBase matters - Part 2

Part 2, a more in depth look at An alternative approach to disaster recovery and backup strategies using PolyBase.