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SQL Server 2025 is on your radar. Your backups should be ready for it before the upgrade, not after.

SQL Safe Backup 9.7 is now available, with full support for SQL Server 2025 and Windows Server 2025.

SQL Safe Backup is ...

A director stops by your desk and asks a simple question: which of your two hundred SQL Servers is closest to running out of disk space this quarter. You know the answer exists somewhere. It is scattered across two hundred sets of collection jobs, a spreadsheet someone updated in March, and the memory of whichever DBA looked at that server last.

That gap between the qu...

Pull up your last five SQL Server incidents and count how many started the same way: a VPN client, a jump box, a Remote Desktop prompt, and a login screen, all before you had actually looked at anything. That sequence used to be the accepted cost of checking a server. It no longer has to be.

A growing number of SQL Server teams are moving day to day monitoring out of a...

SQL Server change data capture (CDC) records the inserts, updates, and deletes made to the tables you choose. It keeps the before and after values of each changed row and stores them in change tables that downstream jobs can query. ETL and data warehouse teams use it to load only the rows that changed.

CDC runs o...

You already know the drill. A query shows up in Query Monitor running long, you pull the execution plan, you try an index, you check whether it helped the query you were fixing and hurt three others you were not thinking about, and an hour later you are still not sure you made the right call. Index tuning is one of those tasks where experience helps, but even an experienced D...