Backup and restore

Aveek Das
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Configuring RDS environment in AWS for SQL Server

April 16, 2020 by

In this article, I’m going to explain how to configure an RDS Environment in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for SQL Server. Amazon RDS, also known as the Amazon Relational Database Service, is a Database-as-a-Service offered by Amazon. This enables us to create an instance of a relational database in RDS including many databases like SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc. The entire hosting is managed by AWS, so there is no worry to maintain any on-premises data center or infrastructure from the customer’s end.

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Rajendra Gupta
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Transaction log backups in a SQL FILESTREAM database

March 5, 2019 by

In the continuation of our SQL FILESTREAM article series, we’ll be covering transaction log backups

In SQL Server, we take transaction log backups regularly to have a point-in-time recovery of a database. It is essential to define the backup policy with the combination of full, differential and transaction log backups. A standard configuration of backups for large databases in the production database environment is as follows.

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Rajendra Gupta

How to recognize corrupted SQL backup files

February 22, 2019 by

A Database administrator’s key task is to keep the database healthy and available for the users. We are used to taking regular SQL backups depending upon the database criticality and the recovery model. We define the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Recovery Time Objective (RTO) or the database system, and we should be able to recover the database in any scenario to meet the requirement.

Milan Rancic

SQL database provisioning via Database clone using PSDatabaseClone PowerShell module

February 4, 2019 by

With the complex SQL database development and production infrastructure there comes an issue with database provisioning. The issue implies that all development and testing instances should have proper version of a database in the proper environments. So that means that database development teams, client application teams, QA and testing teams need to work on proper database version which is usually the one in production but naturally cannot work on the production database itself. This is why those environments have to have a provisioned database and there comes the problem for database DevOps teams how to perform database provisioning, which is repetitive task, with optimal time invested.

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Rajendra Gupta

Restoring a SQL Server FILESTREAM enabled database

January 17, 2019 by

In the series on the SQL Server FILESTREAM feature, we have explored the various aspects of FILESTREAM including its overview, internal architecture, database creation etc. In my last article [put the name of the article and a link], we explored the backup for the FILESTREAM enabled database. We can take Full backup as well as filegroup level backup in the FILESTREAM database.

Rajendra Gupta

SQL Server FILESTREAM Database backup overview

January 16, 2019 by

The SQL Server FILESTREAM feature in SQL Server allows storing the large documents files directly into the file systems. In my previous articles, we explored the concepts of FILESTREAM feature in SQL Server. We also learned the folder structures, metadata information and the process of garbage collection. In this article, we are going to learn about the backup and restores in SQL Server.

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