SQL Server lets you disconnect a database from the main server program, allowing you to make safe backup copies or send data to branch offices.

If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise.

You could, in fact, combine this with the SQL Server 2008 Central Management features (including multi-server query) to quickly gather information across all of your databases.

PowerShell offers a lightweight and efficient solution for backing up SQL Server Express databases on local workstations without the need for full system backups.

I don't know SQL Got a MSSQL script for backing up all databases on a server. It basically backs up all but the TEMP db. But what I want to do is exclude just two of the databases from being ...

Want the ability to restore at the item level in SharePoint SQL backup databases? Use AvePoint's free tool: DocAve SQL Restore Controller.

During the last few articles, we have covered the basics of working with SQL server using the Server Management Objects (SMO) and PowerShell. We have covered things such as viewing the state of ...

Brilliant! For P2V of a SQL server, my practice has been to convert the system drive (C:\) of the source system and utilize one of two recovery strategies. The first is to create the data volume of ...

Optimizing Database Backup Strategies Once the costs and benefits have been weighed, it’s time to optimize the database backup strategy. First—and most importantly—DBAs should restore data­bases ...