Now with the help of SqlBak, you can manage backup jobs and maintenance jobs with your team members separately or even with an entire team. That has become possible due to a brand new “Users” feature available on the “My Account” page. This option can be useful when you need to add one or more users with Read-Only or Manager privileges to your account.
SQL Server
How to run “DBCC SHRINKDATABASE”
The DBCC SHRINKDATABASE is used when it is necessary to shrink the size of the log and data files in a particular database.
How to Run SQL Server Maintenance Jobs
Now you can run regular SQL Server maintenance jobs with the help of SqlBak. This feature can be useful if you regularly need to make some changes to your database. All these changes can be made by adding any SQL Server command (using T-SQL) or adding Windows batch (*.cmd, *.bat).
How to Backup SQL Server Database to Amazon Glacier
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a large, sometimes bewildering array of server, storage, networking, and analytics cloud offerings, as seen here. One of their storage products is Amazon Glacier, in addition to the older storage solutions – S3 and Elastic Block Store (EBS). Glacier is a very affordable solution intended as a write-once, retrieve-seldom storage medium for long-term storage. Think of it as a storage locker that’s far away from your home, as opposed to your at-home garage or cabinet locker. It is also a good choice for your SQL Server backups …
Why Transaction Log backups are important
When backing up your SQL Server database, you have the option of taking transaction log backups. These are quick, small backups containing a sequence of all your database’s changes. Transaction log backups are mightily useful for point-in-time recovery.
Should You Back Up Your System Databases?
It goes without saying that as a DBA, one of your most important tasks is to schedule and ensure regular backups of your databases. But by ‘databases’ here, we usually mean your user-created databases. But SQL Server also automatically creates and maintains a number of system databases. So should you also back these up? Well, the answer isn’t a simple yes or no …
Automated Database Backup-and-Restore for SQL Server
As a DBA, you have almost certainly taken a backup from one server for the purposes of restoration on another server. It’s a somewhat tedious and manual process, but most of us are sort of resigned to it and accept it simply as a necessary evil of the DBA role. I mean, it’s not like you can automate the entire process, right? Well, hold that thought …
POS System Backup Made Easy
A POS system backup is an essential task in any kind of business. Keeping your sales data safe for reporting and auditing is something all businesses should not cut corners in or treat with little importance.
When your company relies solely on an information system (database) to store all of its sales data, then it also must take all precautionary measures to protect this data and periodically make backups of the POS system’s database. We will show you how to do this in the article below.
How to quickly restore a database
If you’re looking for an easy way to quickly restore a database backup then you have found the right place.
Take a look at the article below to find out how you can achieve this.
How to export data from a .bak file to Excel
Were you ever faced with the situation in which you had to extract and export data from a .bak file to Excel (.xls, .xlsx, or .csv format)?
Surely if you have arrived here you are facing this problem and looking for a solution. Well, you have come to the right place. In the article below we will show you how you can achieve this.