You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database backups ...

One of the major challenges that SQL Server admins face nowadays is corruption in MDF file. When a database is corrupted, it goes into the suspect state or you may fail to access the tables, stored ...

This topic describes how to restore a backup from a device in [!INCLUDE[ssnoversion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] by using [!INCLUDE[ssManStudioFull ...

Learn how to backup and restore SQL Server databases on Linux. Also learn how to backup and restore with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). You can take backups of databases from SQL Server 2017 on ...

This came up today and I didn't know exactly how to properly do it.<BR><BR>The situation: We were to move a database from a MS SQL 2000 server into our in house MS SQL server and run the restore to ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...