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Focus on:
SQL Server Backup & Recovery
Welcome to SQLsmarts, Idera’s newsletter for SQL Server Professionals!
We welcome your questions, comments or suggestions.
Email us at SQLsmartseditor@Idera.com.
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In this issue:
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| Product News |
| Just Announced: SQLsafe v3.0
High-performance backup & recovery for SQL Server
Now available for SQL Server 2005 & 64-bit environments
SQLsafe provides industry-leading fast-compressed and secure-encrypted backup, automates backups across multiple servers, eases management of SQL Server backup and restores across large SQL Server environments. Just announced, SQLsafe version 3.0, now works with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 environments.
SQLsafe v3.0 Web Console
Key features of SQLsafe v3.0 include:
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- Full SQL Server 2005 Support: Provides comprehensive backup and restore capabilities for SQL Server 2005 databases.
- Itanium 2 and x64 Support: Provides backup and restore capabilities for 64-bit SQL Server databases running on Itaniums 2 and x64.
- Enhanced Web Console: A new Web-based Monitoring Console offers an improved look and feel that allows users to more easily monitor and analyze the progress of SQLsafe backup and recovery operations jobs.
- Improved Encryption Speed: New technologies enable dramatic speed improvements when performing encrypted backup and recovery operations.
- Additional Extended Stored Procedures: Offers additional extended stored procedures that provide additional Verify and List capabilities.
- Uses the latest Microsoft .NET technology: .NET 2.0
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Learn more about SQLsafe 
Try it Free for 30 days!
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| ROI Calculator |
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How much money can SQLsafe save you on SQL Server backup storage?
SQLsafe significantly reduces backup time, storage costs, and downtime for SQL Server environments. In recent tests, SQLsafe v3.0 reduced backup time by up to 70% and reduced backup storage requirements by up to 95%.
Find out how much time & money Idera SQLsafe version 3.0 could save your company!
Try our quick ROI calculator
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| SQLsafe Performance |
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Idera Sets New Performance Record for SQL Server 2005 Backup and Recovery
Recently, Idera teamed with NEC Solutions America, Emulex Corporation and Texas Memory Systems to set a new record in SQL Server backup speed. Using "off the shelf" technologies available today to any data center customer, the test achieved backup speeds in excess of 4.5 terabytes per hour and restore speeds in excess of 2.3 terabytes per hour. These metrics reflect a more than 20% and 75% performance increases, respectively, over previously documented benchmarks for SQL Server backup and recovery.
This performance record in SQL Server backup and recovery was set using the following hardware & software:
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- NEC Express5800/1320Xe
- Emulex LightPulse® 4Gb/s LP11000 HBAs
- Texas Memory Systems RamSan-400
- 16 Intel® Itanium® 2 Processors
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Windows 2003 Datacenter Edition
- Idera SQLsafe v3.0
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| Webcast |
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Webcast: Addressing Top 5 DBA Pain Points
Presented by: Stephen Wynkoop
SSWUG.org
March 22, 2006
This webcast will address the top 5 DBA pain points including performance investigation, security settings, and more. Attendees will learn quick tips on how to address these pain points, how to resolve issues and how to apply best practices to your systems. The webcast will provide information on each item and show how you can not only address them in triage mode, but also how to plan for them and what native and third-party solutions are available to help out.
Register now >>
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| Tips & Tricks |
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"Checklist: Maximize SQL Server Backup Performance"
Author: Greg Roubideaux, Edgewood Solutions
The following article provides some simple tactics that will help you improve the performance of your SQL Server backups. Not every option will be right for your environment, but using as many of these best practices as possible will significantly improve your backup performance.
See the full checklist >>
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