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SQL Server backup to URL (Azure Blob Storage)

SQL Server has a feature that allows you to save a backup immediately to Azure Blob storage, without intermediate storage on a local disk. This speeds up backups and also allows you not to worry about free space on the local disk for temporarily saving backups. The principle of operation SQL Server itself can connect … Read more

Media errors during backup or restore

media errors during backup or restoreMedia errors during backup or restore operations are quite stressful because usually, these tasks should run smoothly.

But just in case you happen to have one such error, then it would be ready if you would be prepared or have a bit of knowledge about these errors before you see them.

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Backup History for SQL Server databases

Backup History

Having a complete backup history of all of your backup and restore operations can become quite useful at times.

All the data that you might need to be related to this, like who created the backup, at what time, on what media, and many other details are stored in the system databases of the SQL Server instance.

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SQL Server 2014 for backups

SQL Server 2014

So, SQL Server 2014 CTP2 has been released and now we can have a look at some of its new features before its official commercial release later this year.

What we’re mostly interested in is, obviously, improvements related to backups and restores. Here is a shortlist with improvements.

At the time this article was written only SQL Server 2014 CTP2 was available, so information related to this subject is limited to only what was known from the perspective of the CTP2 edition.

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