Create a New SQL Server Maintenance Plan with the Maintenance Plan Designer
In this tip we look at how to use the SQL Server Maintenance Designer to build maintenance plans for your databases and instance.
What you need to consider for your monitoring strategy in 2020
Are you ready for growth in 2020? Whether that means wider business growth which you and your team will be expected to support, expansion of your SQL Server estate, or even your own professional development. Join Redgate in this free webinar on November 20th and be prepared for the coming year.
Accelerating Database Recovery with SQL Server 2019
Learn how to turn on and use newer SQL Server database recovery option called “Accelerated Database Recover”.
SQL Productivity with SQL Prompt
There is an old joke that upgrading to the latest SQL Server is wasted on some DBAs, because they will still stick mainly to what worked in SQL Server 2005. This type of DBA is becoming rare, in my experience, but there is still some truth in the idea that many of us don’t get the ‘full power’ from our SQL Server tools. We work with them as they come, ‘out of the box’, and use only a fraction of their features. The time to explore ‘new stuff’, at least as much as we’d like to, remains elusive.
Falling Behind and Digital Bankruptcy
The challenges of information overload can weigh on technology workers.
Stairway to U-SQL Level 3: Processing Multiple Files With U-SQL
In part 3 of the U-SQL Stairway, we look at how multiple files can be processed with a single U-SQL statement.
Splitting a SQL Server Table Over Multiple Files
In this tip we look at how to move SQL Server tables from one filegroup to another filegroup.
Oops, I deleted that data
We all have these days as a DBA, hopefully they are few and far between for most of us. This morning I walked into the office and found a stack of emails saying that a developer had responded to a support ticket and modified the values in one of our tables and got it wrong. OK, […]
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Backup to Immutable Storage
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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