Your database may get damaged due to several reasons. A backup will help you to restore the database lost in case of disasters and problems, like hardware failure, virus attack, or others. How To ...

A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database ...

SQL Server has long supported backing up databases to Azure Blob Storage, but now supports backup and restore to and from S3 (this can be in AWS or to your own S3 storage).

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database.

SQL Server transaction logs A transaction log is a sequential record of all changes made to the database while the actual data is contained in a separate file.

SQL Server has long supported backing up databases to Azure Blob Storage, but now supports backup and restore to and from S3 (this can be in AWS or to your own S3 storage).