Using compression with SSMS is just as easy. Simply set the compression option on the Options page of the Back up Database dialog. You may be asking yourself: How effective is this compression? The ...

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 ...

I was testing out some new SQL Server 2008 features recently: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Backup Compression. Both are new features in SQL Server 2008. TDE will allow you to encrypt an ...

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 ...

I remember a conversation I had at the Redmond campus with the program manager (at that time it was Paul Randall... now I think he goes by Paul Tripp, but all the same he's not a MS anymore.). Anyway ...

I still have a hard time getting jazzed about Katmai's backup compression. Again, it's probably because I've been using LiteSpeed for so long, and it's just not news anymore. Not to mention it still ...

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 ...