by XTIVIA | Dec 17, 2019 | Azure, Blog, Cloud, Microsoft
Backups have always been a crucial asset in today’s continuous battles to control and protect our data. Every day, your data protection is being challenged continuously by malicious malware and viruses to hold your data hostage and have you pay fees to get it...
by XTIVIA | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Shortly after creating a database on your server you should be planning and scheduling your backup. Easy as it sounds it’s often approached incorrectly. Often the decision when to backup is based on when the server resource usage is low. Database Backup maintenance...
by XTIVIA | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Tip Number 1 – Check your Backups Top 10 Tips for SQL Server Performance and Resiliency I have been a consultant for a number of years and lost track of how many different servers I have worked on a long time ago. However, today as sit down and think, it...
by XTIVIA | Dec 18, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
******** IMPORTANT WARNING ******** DO NOT ENCRYPT ANYTHING WITHOUT FIRST TAKING BACKUPS OF ALL KEYS, BACKUP THE CERTIFICATE, AND NOTE THE PASSWORDS USED. When dealing with encryption of any kind in SQL Server it all begins with the Service Master Key (SMK)....
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Are you testing your database backups, If so how? Sure there are a couple options that you can use to help validate backups but does this mean you are 100% sure, without a doubt, that it can be restored? Have you ever seen a backup file not restore? Recently I was...
by XTIVIA | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
The other day our monitoring system had thrown a couple of alerts for a client. It was reporting there were errors in the client’s alertlog. I logged in and checked the alertlog and sure enough there were multiple dreadred ORA-00600 errors being reported in the...
