Here, Knowledge Center contributor Brent Ozar outlines seven actions database administrators can perform to build a sound database backup and recovery strategy.

There are many backup options for databases, but here are recommendations for Cassandra, DB2, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.

Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached 'general availability' status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use.

Key-value A key-value database is one of many not-only SQL (NoSQL) databases with a single schema consisting of keys and values, where you can look up the value if you know the key.