Omelchenko Alexander 
So, SQL Server 2014 CTP2 has been released and now we can have a look at some of its new features before its official commercial release later this year.
What we’re mostly interested in is, obviously, improvements related to backups and restores. Here is a shortlist with improvements.
At the time this article was written only SQL Server 2014 CTP2 was available, so information related to this subject is limited to only what was known from the perspective of the CTP2 edition.
This post is a continuation of a previous post where we explained how to do a maintenance plan which will take care of creating backups via a schedule. Now that we have a schedule that consistently creates backups, we might want to create a backup cleanup schedule to remove older backup files.
Scheduling the backup operations should be one of the elements that are imperative in the work of any DBA.
This simple action will save you lots of time and effort in the future. Scheduling backups can be done through the visual interface of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as we will see next.
Doing backups might become a repetitive and reflex action if done for quite a long time. But due to this, you might skip a few things at the beginning and never add them to your checklist schedule when doing backups.
The following article presents a list of databases to backup and reasons why you should do it.
You’ve recently come across a peculiar type of file with a .bak extension, and you know you are supposed to restore it in order to get the data.
This article will show you what to do in case you have such a file, and you need to open it to access the information.
We already know that backups are important for securing your databases from data loss.
We also have an article about best practices regarding backups, but the article is quite detailed and if you want to take a shortcut and take care of the essentials, then you’ve found it here.
If you encounter the error message, “the media family on device is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot process this media family,” you may not initially understand exactly what happened.
This post will try to give you a few suggestions as to what might have gone wrong and what to do in those situations.
If you’re here, then there’s a high chance you already know the importance of good backups and what they mean to a serious business.Now that we know how SQL works in a database system, it is now time to learn what sql commands (code) we need to write for specific operations.
As we said in our previous post, SQL gives you complete power over your data. But what does this mean exactly? We have many types of commands which allow you to do different operations with your data.