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• Automate a Database Restore

  It's quite common to see automated/custom procedures for backing up a database/log - nearly everywhere I go companies have custom backup procedures and processes to handle backups, logging of backups, naming standards, locations, etc. However, it's... Posted Jul 29 2008, 06:19 PM by Chad Boyd with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: backup, tsql

• Katmai (Sql 2008) - Data Compression (including Backup Compression)

  This post will cover an initial overview of the data compression feature that will be included in Sql Server 2008, and I'll also cover briefly some information on the Backup Compression feature as well (note that these are 2 totally separate and distinct... Posted Oct 15 2007, 11:31 PM by Chad Boyd with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: backup, 2008, katmai, compression

• Large log backups with bulk operations and read-only databases

  So, here's an interesting scenario I ran into a few weeks back. A customer had a situation in which they were using a read-only database (to serve reports/ad-hoc queries during production hours) that was loaded nightly with differential data from... Posted Oct 15 2007, 11:29 PM by Chad Boyd with | with no comments Filed under: read-only, bulk, backup