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MSSQL 2008 Backup compression

January 3, 2012 by ekrejci

Compression of DBs backup is a nice feature that came with MSSQL 2008 and later. It could be handy in some situation but of course, compression costs resources on the server. I did some tests with a MSSQL server on which I restored DBs of vCenter and VMware Update Manager from a real production environment. … Read more

vCenter MSSQL DBs backup and maintenance

December 23, 2011 by ekrejci

Sometimes, when you are a Virtualization’s specialist you might not be a DB specialist. Unfortunately vCenter uses DBs, meaning that you will have to deal with them one time or another. Here I just wanted to give a little generic and easy to perform way for doing backup and maintenance for these DBs on MSSQL. … Read more