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31. Backup and Restore

Dmitri Korotkevitch

(1)Tampa, Florida, USA

In the technology world, it is just a matter of time before disaster happens. A database could become corrupted due to a user error, hardware malfunction, or software bug. A disk array could fail, making databases unavailable to users. An engineer could accidentally change the LUN configuration in a SAN array and affect the database it stores. A natural disaster could affect the availability of a datacenter. In any of these instances, it is essential to recover the database and bring the system online with minimal data loss and downtime.

This chapter discusses how SQL Server performs ...

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