SQL Server Backup and Recovery Course

Is Your SQL Server Backup and Recovery Strategy Really Up to the Task?

Disaster can strike at any moment—a Ransomware attack, a hardware failure, or even a flood in your server room. When it happens, the only thing that stands between you and total data loss is your SQL Server backup and recovery plan. Are you confident in your ability to recover and restore your databases quickly and completely?

All too often, I’ve received desperate calls from businesses who believed their backups were sufficient, only to discover that their recovery strategy wasn’t enough. Whether it’s a corrupt database, ransomware wiping out backups, or an entire array failure, the question is: can you restore and get your systems back up and running?

This is why I created the SQL Server Backup, Recovery, and Restore Course. It’s designed to help you either build a backup and recovery strategy from scratch or enhance your current plan to ensure it’s ready for anything.

What You Will Learn in This Course

We don’t just talk theory in this course. We dig into real-world recovery scenarios and discuss lessons learned from businesses that failed to plan properly. This course covers:

RTO and RPO (Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective): Discover how to calculate the acceptable downtime and data loss for your organization. We’ll work through examples and help you apply these metrics to your environment to shape your recovery plan.
Types of SQL Server Backups: Learn how to configure full, differential, and transaction log backups, ensuring you can restore from the correct version when needed.
Restoring Your Backups: We guide you through different restore scenarios, such as recovering a dropped table, moving a database to another server, or restoring after a ransomware attack.
Ransomware and Immutable Backups: With ransomware on the rise, it’s crucial to understand how to protect your backups. We’ll explore how to ensure you can recover even if your systems are hit by Ransomware.
Building a Restore Script: Learn how to automate and simplify the restore process by building a custom script, ensuring you’re prepared to act swiftly in an emergency.
Using Backup Tools: We’ll look at other useful tools like AZCOPY for moving backups to Azure storage and using trace flags to streamline the backup process.

Who Is This Course For?

This course is perfect for DBAs, IT managers, and developers responsible for SQL Server environments. Whether you need to design a new recovery strategy or strengthen an existing one, this course provides actionable insights to improve your ability to backup, recover, and restore your SQL Server databases.

The Importance of a Strong Recovery Plan

The most critical task you’ll face as a DBA is recovering from backups during a disaster. But a simple backup isn’t enough—you need to know how to restore your data reliably and quickly. Disasters don’t wait for you to be ready, so having a well-tested and robust recovery strategy is essential.

Too often, businesses find out that their backups weren’t sufficient only after disaster strikes. This course helps you avoid that nightmare scenario. Our goal is to ensure you’re never in a position where you have to explain to your management that everything is lost because your backups failed and no restore is possible.

Enroll in the SQL Server Backup, Recovery, and Restore Course Today

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Start preparing now by enrolling in the SQL Server Backup, Recovery, and Restore Course. With flexible pricing options, including one-year access, lifetime access, and a yearly subscription, this course is an investment in safeguarding your business’s data.

Enroll Now and take the first step toward building a strong Backup and Recovery strategy that will allow you to restore confidently when disaster strikes.

Your data is too important to leave to chance—get prepared now and ensure you can always recover and restore when you need to.

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