Identify or create a Recovery Services vault in the same region or locale as the VM hosting the SQL Server instance. Check the VM permissions needed to back up the SQL databases. Verify that the VM ...

In this tutorial, learn how to back up a SQL Server database running on an Azure VM to an Azure Backup Recovery Services vault. This tutorial shows you how to back up a SQL Server database running on ...

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 ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Backup and restore to simple storage service (S3)–compatible object storage is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2022 that grants the user the capability ...

In this Microsoft SQL Server and JDBC tutorial, you'll learn how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server in Java using JDBC. The steps are relatively straightforward: Each database is different, so ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...