I have been using Maintenance Plans to back up my databases. It works well enough for me but I am curious to know why the .bak have a very long date/time suffix. Here is an example:
MyDatabase_backup_2022_10_27_213008_2710399.bak
I can see the yyyy_MM_dd_hhmmss format but what about the rest (2710399), microseconds…?
Thanks,
Best Answer
Yes, helps makes the file unique. I believe the format string for backups is something akin to:
yyyy_MM_dd_HHmmss_fffffff