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Types of backup
There are several levels and types of backup:
■ Full backup - usually done daily, weekly, or monthly. Includes both system and data files
■ Incremental backup - backs up only files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup
■ Differential backup - backs up every file that has changed since the last […]

Progress® DataXtend™ Remote Edition and Microsoft® SQL Server™ both provide a set of replication tools for copying, distributing, and synchronizing data from one database to another. DataXtend RE (Remote Edition) provides the most comprehensive and flexible replication and synchronization tools available for software developers and enterprise IT departments to make their applications mobile and available […]

This document provides detailed information on:
how to set up a SQL maintenance plan on your child care server how to ensure the child care databases are being backed up onto the server daily.
You must set up a SQL database maintenance plan on your server. This plan does the following:
• reorganizes data and indexes
• checks database […]

Microsoft SQL Server has a reputation of being one of the easier database platforms to administer and manage. Oddly enough, however, when it comes to understanding what SQL Server is doing underneath the covers with respect to space, SQL Server actually isn’t as straightforward as some of the other database platforms. The ability to easily […]

Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2008 at TechEd 2007 in Orlando, Florida on June 4, 2007. A CTP release is a downloadable preview of a product that users can work with in a test environment to try out the new features before the actual product […]

As XML usage grows for both data-centric and document-centric applications, introducing native support for XML data in relational databases brings significant benefits. It provides a more mature platform for the XML data model and serves as the basis for interoperability between relational and XML data. Whereas query processing on XML data shredded into one or […]

Microsoft Corporation faced a gap in delivering accurate, timely, & easily consumable information to its sales force community. Sales force data was stored in SQL Server 2000 databases on multiple source systems including Siebel CRM. Those divergent data sources contained different aspects of sales data such as sale quotas in the incentive compensation system and […]

There are two concepts about backup subject. A file-level backup is oriented to store separate files. A volume-level backup or imaging is oriented to store whole filesystem of a volume.
A file-level backup naturally provides an intuitive and flexible way to select objects to store. File-oriented backup tools allow to choose any combination of both local […]

Questions and Answers for the new Open Source FDO Provider for Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 Database Software
Autodesk FDO Data Access Technology (FDO) addresses the need for openness and interoperability between traditional geographic information system (GIS) applications and mainstream operational information technology (IT) systems, as well as integration with public or private web mapping services. Incorporated […]

SQL Server 2005 is the most exciting release of SQL Server for years. It may be the only release in the last five years, but it’s genuinely an exciting release full of new and useful features. In addition to new features, SQL Server 2005 also includes many features that are big improvements on their counterparts […]