Tag: backup strategy

• Common Database Vulnerabilities: Backup Data Exposure

  

  2014-08-30 - Backup, Common Database Vulnerabilities, General, Security, Series

  Backups are a common cause for data breaches. Read on to find out, why strategies designed to protect the sensitive data within your database are often inadequate to provide the same protection within a backup.

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• How to Back Up Your Certificates

  

  2014-05-02 - Backup, Cryptography, General, Security

  Certificates are an important part of you encryption strategy and as such need to be backed up. Discover how to achieve that, by using the BACKUP CERTIFICATE statement.

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• Log Reuse Waits Explained: ACTIVE_BACKUP_OR_RESTORE

  

  2014-01-16 - Backup, General, Log Reuse Wait, Series, Transaction Log

  Is your database log file growing out of bound and reporting ACTIVE_BACKUP_OR_RESTORE as reason? Read on to find out what that means and what you can do about it.

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