I would recommend that instead of using a backup device you backup to a unique filename each night.  This way you can purge the older backup files off of disk. ...

You could use differential backups to reduce improve the performance of this.  Take a full backup every week and restore it into development and then take nightly differentials and apply...

Why not just run backups of your databases in series rather than in parallel.

BACKUP DATABASE db1 TO DISK=filename1

BACKUP DATABASE db2 TO DISK=filename2

etc...

Its a fairly easy TSQL script to create to...

I hate to say this but you are probably out of luck.  Have you ever taken an image of the hard drive?  Maybe you have a system restore point that...

Do you have AWE enabled on this server.  There were several known issues with sp4 and running AWE.  If so you should search the microsoft KB for the relevant hot...

Quest Central for SQL Server from Quest Software has a component called Performance Analysis that does exactly this. 

We're hoping that it will get activated in a service pack. Fingers crossed.

Yes,

You do need a copy of SQL Server on the witness server.  The good news is that this copy can be SQL Express (the MSDE of SQL 2005) which is...

1) Take a backup of pubs and include the password clause.

2) Open the backup file in notepad.

3) Do search for the string "Smith"

4) Take a look...

Especially dissapointing as microsoft had been advertising the june CTP as feature complete. I to had given 20+ presentations on mirroring in the past two months... looks like I'll...

My statement regarding refreshing development databases was meant to suggest that the data that is being developed against is current. Assuming no schema changes have occured, a restore is...

Also, network backups are very slow and tend to saturate even the largest networks.  Best practices recommend that you backup up your databases locally and then copy them to your...

The best method for this is to take a backup of your development database and restore the backup file into production.

If you are doing a restore and re-initializing the data files (using a with move statement) the first thing the restore does is initialize the data files (marking extents and...

I'd like to reiterate what Chris said. PASS is the largest and best conference dedicated to SQL Server. This year should be especially exceptional with the upcoming release...