Focus on SQL Server Backup & Free Tools

Welcome to SQLsmarts, Idera’s monthly newsletter for SQL Server Professionals! We welcome your questions, comments or suggestions.
Email us at SQLsmartseditor@Idera.com.

Do you want faster, easier SQL Server backup?
And do you want it for FREE?

We thought so!
Try Idera’s new SQLsafe Freeware Edition!

SQLsafe Freeware Edition is an abbreviated version of Idera’s award-winning enterprise-class backup and recovery product, SQLsafe. SQLsafe Freeware Edition gives you a high performance, yet easy-to-use engine that will backup and compress any size SQL Server database. Try Idera’s new SQLsafe Freeware Edition and soon you will expediting backup times by 50% and reducing disk space usage by 95%!

And, yes, it’s COMPLETELY FREE!

Download SQLsafe Freeware Edition now

SQLsafe Freeware Edition gives you these great features:

• High-speed backup with no size limitation: Optimizes database backups for speed, reducing backup time by up to 50% versus traditional methods.
• Powerful compression: Enabling up to 95% savings in data storage.
• An easy-to-use, scriptable interface: Enables backup operations via the command line, extended stored procedures or scheduled jobs.
• Online documentation and support:  All the information you need to install, deploy and use SQLsafe Freeware Edition is on the Idera website.
• Download as many copies as you need: Again, it’s all for free!

Do you want a more advanced SQL Server backup and recovery solution with encryption, additional compression options, enterprise-class management capabilities, ’hands-free’ backup and recovery automation, and 24x7 technical support? Try the full version of SQLsafe! >>

See the latest in SQL Server Backup and Recovery: SQLsafe 4.0 now available!

Now offers “hands free” policy based backup & recovery

SQLsafe v4.0 is the first and only backup and recovery solution to offer policy-based backup for SQL Server databases. With SQLsafe 4.0 you can define backup schedules across all of your servers providing you with a ‘hands-free’ automated backup environment. 

Additional innovative features delivered in SQLsafe v4.0 include:

• IntelliRestore(TM) provides graphical point-in-time recovery using a sliding time scale. Simply choose a point in time and SQLsafe will automatically assemble all the backup components and execute the operations necessary to restore the database to the specified point in time. >> See Intelli
• Multiple database restore allows DBAs to quickly restore multiple databases at once using a simple restore wizard.
• New and improved Management Console with enhanced capabilities and usability
• Reliable, high-performance backup & recovery for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
• Full support for advanced backup options in SQL Server 2005– Provides maximum available control of backup operations

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Try SQLsafe v4.0 for 14 days

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• Receive customized alerts for critical issues
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LIVE WEBCAST:
Backup & Restore Operations in SQL Server 2005

June, 20, 2007, 7:00 AM Central
Sponsored by SearchSQLServer & Idera

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It is essential every DBA have a proven and reliable backup and recovery plan for their SQL Server database, as data is the life blood of any organization. In this first Webcast, SQL Server MVP Hilary Cotter outlines overall backup and restore best practices in SQL Server, including:

• Recovery model choices: full, simple and bulk-logged
• Backup types: the advantages of one over the other
• Options for restoring backups
• Partial backup process

LIVE WEBCAST:
SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services/Unified Data Model

Thursday June 21, 2007
11:30 AM Central – 1:00 PM Central
Hosted by: Scalability Experts & Idera

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The Unified Data Model (UDM) is a new model used in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.  This feature, combined with proactive caching, has powerful business intelligence capabilities -- enabling database administrators to interpret data more effectively and make information available so that faster and better business decisions can be made. Join Idera & Scalability Experts to discuss the benefits of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services & UDM.

Essential Guide to SQL Server 2005
Backup & Recovery

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SQL Server 2005 provides four high-availability technologies: failover clustering and database mirroring, both with supported automatic failover; and log shipping and replication, with either manual or custom-coded failover. Download this whitepepaper written by Karen Delaney, Microsoft MVP, and sponsored by Idera & SQL Server Magazine, to learn more about the new backup, recovery, and high-availability technologies available in SQL Server 2005.

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Live Webcasts:

• SQL Server 2005
  Analysis Services/
  Unified Data Model
  Thursday June 21, 2007
  11:30 AM Central – 1:00 PM Central
  REGISTER HERE

• Backup & Restore Operations in SQL
  Server 2005
  June, 20, 2007, 7:00 AM Central
  REGISTER HERE

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