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 ...

When you use a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) application to backup files on a volume that includes SQL Server database files, SQL Server records a backup operation in the backupset history table.

Is anyone out there doing their SQL backups to Azure blob storage? If so, how are you managing the backup sets? For instance, my understanding is that right now, SQL Server really can't read the ...