Using compression with SSMS is just as easy. Simply set the compression option on the Options page of the Back up Database dialog. You may be asking yourself: How effective is this compression? The ...

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Idera’s SQLsafe — a backup utility for Microsoft SQL Server — was designed to compete directly with Imceda’s LiteSpeed. Similar to LiteSpeed, SQLsafe improves on native SQL Server backups with ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, has announced the latest version of its SQL Server backup and recovery solutions: SQL safe 6.4, SQL safe lite 6.4 and SQL ...

I remember a conversation I had at the Redmond campus with the program manager (at that time it was Paul Randall... now I think he goes by Paul Tripp, but all the same he's not a MS anymore.). Anyway ...

Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) has released a new version of LiteSpeed for SQL Server, which now offers multi-instance backup management so DBAs can easily apply consistent backup strategies ...

OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the number of ...

FREMONT, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) introduced the industry's first hardware-accelerated backup-to-disk data ...

SQL Server 2008 supports two levels of data compression – row and page level. There is also backup compression which is completely separate but very useful too. Row level compression looks at each ...

The second service pack for Microsoft's flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2016, shipped this month. According to a blog post published this week, the SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes cumulative ...