A semester’s worth of Backup and Recovery blogs The TSQL Tuesday 85 Rollup

I was thrilled to host TSQL Tuesday #85, the last TSQL Tuesday of 2016. My subject was backup and recovery and I was pleased to see this line of myinvitation quoted several times.

Backups are one of the most common things DBAs discuss, and they are at once one of the simplest and most complicated parts of our whole job. So let’s hear it for backup and recovery!

Because let’s face it whole books are written on the subject and yet it’s one of the very first things a DBA should learn. Because it is one of those subjects everyone has to learn one way or another I had a large number of responses (which explains my delay in getting this rollup out, sorry about that). However, the large number of responses makes this list an excellent course on backup and recovery. It’s by no means comprehensive but if you read each of these posts you will have a great start into what’s necessary and what’s possible.

So enough with the intro and on with the study work!

#EntryLevel backup and recovery Intro to backup & recovery 101 : In what appers to be the first post of a series Angela Tidwell ( b / t ) tells us about the most important role of a SQL Server DBA. Intro to backup & recovery 102 : Deborah Melkin ( b / t ) asks “Why do we run restores?” Intro to backup & recovery 103 : Michelle Haarhues ( b / t ) gives us a basic overview of backup and recovery. Intro to backup & recovery 104 : Here we get a rundown of the various recovery modes by Chris Sommer ( b / t ). Intro to backup & recovery 201 : In this blog Aaron Bertrand ( b / t ) gives us a more in-detail overview of backup and recovery. Practical 101 : Kevin Hill ( b / t ) gives us an #EntryLevel video demo of doing backups and recovery. Practical 102 : Marek Mako ( b / t ) walks us through maintence plans. Practical 103 : Jens Vestergaard ( b / t ) walks us through backing up an SSAS database in multiples ways including the GUI, XMLA and Powershell. Practical 104 : Need to restore to a point in time? Derik Hammer ( b / t ) tells us how. Practical 201 : Andy Mallon ( b / t ) uses Powershell to set up Azure storage to give us a place to store our backups. Overview 101 : Rob Farley ( b / t ) points out that too many of us concentrate on backups and not on our ability to actually recover from a disaster. Overview 102 : Dave Mason ( b / t ) points out that we don’t always need a backup to recover data. Not if we do a bit of preperation first.

DBATools.io

dbatools.iois a free Powershell module with over 100 SQL Server best practice, administration and migration commands included.

dbatools.io Intro : Want an overview of what dbatools.io is? Chrissy LeMaire ( b / t ) gives us one with an emphasis on backup and recovery. dbatools.io 101 : Stuart Moore ( b / t ) discusses making restores easier using dbatools.io. dbato