Speaking as a 3rd party backup tool vendor, ours sure does.

Most of the 3rd party backup tools are, to one degree or another, using native backups. So yes,...

Differences in the server settings? Differences on database settings? Differences on query plans being generated? It's so hard to say for certain without  a lot more knowledge that it's absolutely...

You allocated 800mb for tempdb, but you left the growth on. How much space is on the drive? It's going to attempt to grow to fill the space needed to...

OK. So you have 16gb of memory. You can't allocate all of it to the VMs. You have to have memory left behind on the physical box to ensure there's...

Reading everyone else's responses. Good stuff.

The thing is, it's not about who, how, or where the backup is done. I could care less. So could the company. It's...

Treating a relational data storage engine as dumb storage is spending time money and effort that is utterly wasteful. If you don't need and won't use the functionality that the...

Yep. Larger transaction.

Usually the biggest issue with plan guides is that your T-SQL in the guide has to match the T-SQL it's seeking to replace perfectly, every possible way, all the capitalization...

Have you tested a restore? Does it meet your SLA, the RPO and the RTO? If so, you're golden. Don't sweat it. However, most of the time, that kind of...