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Chapter 5: Rethinking SQL Server Backups

Series: The Definitive Guide Series

Author: Don Jones

ISBN: pending

More and more companies are using Microsoft SQL Server these days—and in many cases, they don’t even realize it. While plenty of organizations deliberately install SQL Server, many businesses find themselves using SQL Server as a side effect, because SQL Server is the data store for some line-of-business application, technology solution, and so on.

Here’s what I see happening in many organizations: The company has one or more “official” SQL Server installations, and the IT team is aware of the need to back up these instances on a regular basis. But there are also numerous “stealth” installations of SQL Server, often running on the “Express” edition of SQL Server, that the IT team is unaware of. The data stored in these “stealth” installations is no less mission critical than the data in the “official” installations, but in many cases, that data isn’t being protected properly. Dealing with this “sprawl” is just one of the unique challenges that Backup 2.0 faces in SQL Server.

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