Welcome to SQLA Beta

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Question: When will “Download Your StackExchange Database” be available? (for the StackExchange software used to run this SQLA website)

Answer: "This is planned for beta 7, which will come out sometime around the end of January or early February." - http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3641/when-will-download-your-stackexchange-database-be-available

Here's the reason this is important: http://sqla.stackexchange.com/questions/109/what-is-the-backup-and-recovery-strategy-for-sqla

Here are the implications: When this happens, I'm going to start heavily promoting SQLA... even though both StackExchange and SQLA will still be in "beta" for some time after that, it will be (IMO) safe to use.

Like Google Mail was safe to use even though it was in beta for years.

edited Feb 4 at 8:46

asked Jan 13 at 10:11

Breck Carter♦♦
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Chris Kleisath · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-28 15:30:00Z UTC

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Please be sure to let the community as well as us Sybase folks know when there is a backup solution in place.

answered Jan 28 at 15:30

Chris Kleisath
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	I'll let the 100-point bounty be my answer to you :) – Breck Carter Jan 29 at 10:38
	@Chris: Are you Sybase folks going to handle SQLA differently when a backup (and maybe the "SQLA GA") are available - i.e. are you going to support this "more formally"? – Volker Barth Jan 29 at 12:10
	@Breck: I didn't realize there was a bounty on this question; that's not the reason I posted my Answer.....however...I'll take it. – Chris Kleisath Jan 29 at 16:50
	@Volker: As Dave mentioned in an earlier question, we continue to monitor SQLA, and hope to see a community develop around it. – Chris Kleisath Jan 29 at 16:51

SQLA Announcement: External backup coming to this SQLA website in February 2010

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