I’ve started a new video series:
In this video, I explain why it is so important to back up your databases. From there, we see one technique for taking these backups in SQL Server: using SQL Server Management Studio. We review some of the backup metadata you can collect and also see how to compress and encrypt backups.
The first few videos in the series have all gone a bit longer than I expected, and that’s even with me pointedly ignoring most everything to do with tape drives.