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Published inApr 2014
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781782172413
Edition1st Edition
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Gethyn Ellis
Gethyn Ellis
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Gethyn Ellis

Gethyn Ellis has over eighteen years of experience with SQL Server and for past ten years he has been working on Azure. He is an Microsoft certified trainer. He also trains and is a consultant for SQL Server. Prior to this he has worked with Packt and written books on "Getting Started SQL Server 2014 Administration" , "Microsoft Azure laaS Essentials", and Professional Azure SQL Database Administration.
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SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure


Building on the ability to take a backup of a SQL Server database to a URL and Microsoft Azure Storage, you can now set up Managed Backups of your SQL Server databases to Microsoft Azure. It allows you to automate your database backups to the Microsoft Azure Storage. All database administrators appreciate automation, as it frees their time to focus on other projects. So, this feature will be useful to you. It's fully customizable, and you can build your backup strategy around the transaction workload of your database and set a retention policy.

Configuring SQL Server-managed backups to Microsoft Azure

In order to set up and configure Managed Backups in SQL Server 2014, a new stored procedure has been introduced to configure Managed Backups on a specific database. The stored procedure is called smart_admin.sp_set_db_backup. The syntax for the stored procedure is as follows:

EXEC smart_admin.sp_set_db_backup  
     [@database_name = ] 'database name...
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Gethyn Ellis

Gethyn Ellis has over eighteen years of experience with SQL Server and for past ten years he has been working on Azure. He is an Microsoft certified trainer. He also trains and is a consultant for SQL Server. Prior to this he has worked with Packt and written books on "Getting Started SQL Server 2014 Administration" , "Microsoft Azure laaS Essentials", and Professional Azure SQL Database Administration.
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