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Backup Failure and Gap Detection with AI

2026-04-23 · by Hannah Vernon · in AI for DBAs

Catch missed and failed backups before they become an RTO/RPO crisis with AI-built monitoring.

AI-Powered Backup Status Audit Across Your Fleet

2026-04-23 · by Hannah Vernon · in AI for DBAs

Generate a comprehensive backup audit script with AI checking RPO violations, missing backups, and recovery model mismatches.

Storing Backups Locally? You have no Backups!

2019-02-22 · by Hannah Vernon · in recovery

Me, being nice! You’ve got business critical data stored in your SQL Server, don’t you? And you’re taking backups of those databases, right? But where are you storing those backups? If you’re storing backups locally,…

Modify device path for multiple Backup Devices

2019-01-18 · by Hannah Vernon · in maintenance, tools

Backup Devices provide a nice way to permanently configure the backup location, enabling BACKUP DATABASE to look like:

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BACKUP DATABASE [xyz] TO [backup-device-name];

When you create a Backup Device, you specify the physical location where backups will actually be…

Backup Performance Testing

2018-07-25 · by Hannah Vernon · in performance, tools

Reliable database backups are perhaps the single most important aspect of a Database Administrator’s job. The business risk from data-loss that can occur without a reliable database backup are substantial enough to bring many smaller…

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