Basics – Recovering Microsoft SQL Server Databases as Flat Files

You don’t always want to be able to recover a database backup as a live database – either overwriting an existing…

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Thoughts on how to Protect PaaS

As an organisation becomes more mature in their dealings with cloud they recognise that certain cloud decisions (AWS vs Azure,…

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Understanding Database Backup Methods

Introduction There’s always been a few different methods for database backups. Adding to the mix of course, businesses can have…

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Accelerating Oracle Recoveries with NetWorker 18.1

Introduction When NetWorker 18.1 was released, it wasn’t just the core NetWorker environment that got an update – the application…

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Backing up Oracle with NMDA

In previous posts I’ve talked about options around database backups – specifically whether you’d use a NetWorker module or say,…

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Who should handle your database backups?

I’ve been working with backups for 20 years, and if there’s been one constant in 20 years I’d say that application…

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Please, No!

So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…

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