The Database Hub provides a single, centralized management hub for Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and more. SQL databases in Fabric now include a migration assistant and extensive enterprise ...

Microsoft has recently previewed updates across its Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including improvements to Copilot in Word and Teams. Now the company is also enhancing its backup and recovery capabilities ...

Microsoft will soon begin rolling out a significant upgrade to Microsoft 365 Backup to speed up recovery by allowing administrators to restore individual files and folders. Microsoft 365 Backup is a ...

A seasoned software engineer with extensive experience in building complex distributed data-intensive backend services. The most general way to satisfy a COUNT DISTINCT or SELECT DISTINCT clause is to ...

I've been in a particularly "back everything up for the sake of it" mood lately, and the latest target of my fixation is messages. It's been several generations of Android flagships since I archived ...

Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) is a special boot mode for Windows Server domain controllers, similar to Safe Mode, that allows administrators to perform critical maintenance, repair, or ...

Reinstalling Ubuntu can feel like a fresh start, but soon after, I always face the same problem: reinstalling all my apps, PPAs, and settings one by one. It takes hours, and I often forget something ...

In this digital age, losing your precious data is one of the worst nightmares. If you own an iPhone, you would know that you can easily backup data and restore it on iCloud. But, there are other ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article on how to use PowerShell to back up a database within SQL Server Express Edition. Even though the technique that I described in that post works, the script ...

It's recommended that your S3 bucket have versioning turned on. Each backup creates a file of the form DB_NAME.sql.gz. If versioning is not turned on, the previous backup file will be replaced with ...