Types of Backups. In SQL Server, there are different types of backups: Full Backup: ... How to Create Differential Backups Using T-SQL. Alternatively, you can use the T-SQL commands to create a ...

SQL Server Backup Types. New! Welcome to this new series of columns for working with SQL Server. First, let's talk backups. By Eric Johnson; 10/08/2007; Welcome to this new series -- in this column, I ...

However, looking at the backup chain on the SQL server now, I see that the full server backup that happened at 11:30pm is the base full backup for the subsequent differential backups, rather than ...

An open source project gives DBAs the ability to channel PowerShell for automating and scaling complex SQL Server tasks, starting with the most basic: database backups.

In SQL Server 2005 and later, you can create a transaction log backup while a full or differential backup is occurring, but the log backup will not truncate the log due to the fact that the entire ...