SQL Server 2008 provides a feature, which, in my opinion, has been far overdue: backup compression. For too long, if you wanted the benefit of compressed backups, you had to look at a third-party tool ...

This article is a revised version of the original published January 3, 2005. See Editor’s Note for details. Two major factors drive database backups these days: compliance and disk space. Some ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

This .NET console application scans your running Docker containers, detects common database images, and creates compressed backups into a local backups folder. If MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD is missing or wrong ...

A production-grade CLI tool written in C++17 that reads SQL Server full backup (.bak) files and extracts data from a specified table into CSV, Parquet, or JSON Lines format. Limitations: Does not ...