Redmond

PowerShell-Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 2

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...
Redmond

PowerShell Based SQL Server Backups Revisited, Part 1

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...
GitHub

back-up-sql-server-instance-snapshot.md

This article describes how to back up SQL Server instances in Azure VMs using snapshot backups (preview). It covers the prerequisites, configuration steps for backup policies, database discovery, and ...
techtarget

Oracle RMAN tutorial: Get started with database backup

Oracle Recovery Manager is a built-in utility for backing up and recovering databases. RMAN is designed to perform integrity checks that are simply not possible with the user-managed method. The ...