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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

You're reading from  SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462541
Pages 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Setting up SQL Server 2017 2. Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Securing Your SQL Server 5. Disaster Recovery Options 6. Indexing and Performance 7. Troubleshooting SQL Server Environment and Internals 8. Migration and Upgrade 9. Automation - Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2017 10. Always On High Availability Features 11. In-Memory OLTP - Why and How to Use it 12. Combining SQL Server 2017 with Azure

Backup

Backup can be understood as a copy of used data pages or a copy of transaction log records. Backup has to be done regularly. Backup is needed not only to restore databases in case of physical or logical failure, but it is also useful when, for example, we want to make a copy of the database or migrate the database to another SQL Server instance. To have our backups proper and complete, we need to consider the following points:

  • How to configure the database
  • Which types of backups combine together
  • How to use backup strategies in conjunction with database usage

Recovery model

Every database has a property called recovery model. The recovery model determines how transactions are logged, and for how long time committed...

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