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    LiteSpeed Eases Database Tasks

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    Lisa Vaas
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    September 15, 2003
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      Edgewood Solutions LLC is aiming to make backup and recovery of Microsoft Corp.s SQL Server databases fast and painless with SQL LiteSpeed 3, the latest version of its database backup tool.

      SQL LiteSpeed 3, which the company released earlier this month, features a data compression and encryption engine fronted by a graphical console that offers guided backup and recovery. The software will support 64-bit computing as well as the next version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon. It is also compliant with Windows 2003 and Microsofts .Net.

      The upgrades compression yields storage savings of 50 to 95 percent for SQL Server backups, according to officials at the Merrimack, N.H., company. The officials also said SQL LiteSpeed 3 hastens backup times by 50 to 75 percent.

      The upgrade features improved job management, with advanced job scheduling, a detailed history of jobs, and the ability to check the integrity of databases and database tables.

      Harv Sidhu, a vice president who manages the SQL Server group for Merrill Lynch & Co., in Hopewell, N.J., said the upgrades assisted recovery, wherein SQL LiteSpeed 3 recommends files that require backing up, will be helpful.

      Sidhus group is using the tool for database backup that involves moving hundreds of gigabytes of data—a task that probably couldnt have been done before his group started using the product two years ago, Sidhu said. SQL LiteSpeed makes the data movement possible with its ability to perform compressed backups, reducing the time it takes to restore those compressed backups, and because of its small footprint, he said.

      “Thats really saving our skin at the moment,” Sidhu said. “The backup file sizes would have been much bigger [before using the product]. It takes longer to do those backups, and when you copy from one server to the next, it takes that much longer. And it takes longer to restore them. SQL LiteSpeed is cutting through all of that. We can do things in minutes or hours that would have taken us hours and days. I dont know how we would have survived without this, actually.”

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      Lisa Vaas is News Editor/Operations for eWEEK.com and also serves as editor of the Database topic center. Since 1995, she has also been a Webcast news show anchorperson and a reporter covering the IT industry. She has focused on customer relationship management technology, IT salaries and careers, effects of the H1-B visa on the technology workforce, wireless technology, security, and, most recently, databases and the technologies that touch upon them. Her articles have appeared in eWEEK's print edition, on eWEEK.com, and in the startup IT magazine PC Connection. Prior to becoming a journalist, Vaas experienced an array of eye-opening careers, including driving a cab in Boston, photographing cranky babies in shopping malls, selling cameras, typography and computer training. She stopped a hair short of finishing an M.A. in English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She earned a B.S. in Communications from Emerson College. She runs two open-mic reading series in Boston and currently keeps bees in her home in Mashpee, Mass.

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