SQL Server : The complete course about BACKUP and RESTORE.

About this course

Did you know that you can perform with your BACKUP?Are you sure you have an effective and robust BACKUP strategy in place?Have you ever heard of the TAIL LOG BACKUP ?This course is divided into two chapters: The first part, is the beginner's level part, where we will discuss the :How to make very simply a BACKUP and a RESTORE.Discuss the BACKUP LOGS and DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP, and why it is absolutely necessary to implement them in your BACKUP strategy.Understand the interest of the WITH INIT in a BACKUP, and learn how to make a restoration in time with the WITH STOPAT option.And finally, we will see the different full recovery model on a database(FULL,SIMPLE and BULKED LOGGUED), and why this is (very) important for our BACKUPs. The second part, which is longer, is the part of a more advanced level, we will discuss : The performance when doing a BACKUP on several files.Avoiding corruption on BACKUPs with the CHECKSUM, and understanding the importance of BACKUP WITH COPY ONLY, to avoid breaking the BACKUP chain during the day.To discover that you can make a RESTORE of a page, or from a LSN, to avoid losing hours of RESTORE, in case of server crash.Recover unsaved logs, in case of server crash, with the power of the TAIL LOG BACKUP.We will discuss the BACKUP WITH COMPRESSION, to save disk space, which can be significant, and the simultaneous copy of BACKUP with the WITH MIRROR option.