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• SSMS 2012 Restore GUI Gotcha

  Today I want to bring to your attention an issue in the SQL Server Management Studio 2012 restore GUI. In many ways the new restore dialog is nicer than the old one, with new features and added convenience – but, as is always the Achilles heel of GUI Read More... Posted Friday, March 15, 2013 10:30 AM by merrillaldrich | 2 Comments Filed under: management studio, backup, disaster recovery, logshipping

• Case Study: Secure Log Shipping via SSL FTP

  Today I’m putting up sort of an oddball solution I build a couple of months ago. We had the need to provide a reporting copy of some production databases for analysts to do ad-hoc reporting. The trick was that we needed to move the databases from a less Read More... Posted Thursday, May 19, 2011 6:12 PM by merrillaldrich | 1 Comments Filed under: security, powershell, logshipping