Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I hope to impart some quick, short tips that will help you make quick work of managing and administering your SQL Server databases. First up is an ...

We currently have a SQL 2008 server running as a VM. We backup nightly using Veeam and my consultant also advise we backup on top of that via BackupExec. Lately, our Backupexec jobs have been running ...

Backup process SQL Server Backup for Azure VMs uses the SQL native APIs to take backups of your SQL databases. Just specify the VM that you want to protect and query all SQL Server instances for the ...