Month: December 2007

SQL Backup Software: Part 3 – New Features for Backup/Restore

Last Updated August 14, 2018

In the last decade, Microsoft has brought SQL Server a long way – bringing in things like .NET code, data encryption, partitioning, and a darned slick management user interface. But one of the things that hasn’t changed has been the process of backing up and restoring data. We still back up to a file, and…

Microsoft Technology Center: The DBA Experience

Last Updated August 24, 2009

Brent Ozar

Our contacts at Microsoft offered us the services of a Microsoft Technology Center to do a two-week lab exercise on our data warehouse. We’d kept piling one application after another on our data warehouse SQL Server until the poor thing was plain out of maintenance windows and couldn’t keep up, and we needed info from…

At Microsoft’s Technology Center in Chicago

Last Updated November 1, 2009

Brent Ozar

Carlos and I flew into Chicago midday yesterday, and a winter storm came in right after us. We’re at Microsoft’s Technology Center on Wacker drive, and our work area on the 23rd floor has a wall of windows with a great view of the city. We watched the sky get darker in the afternoon as…