The SQL Server backup and restore component provides an essential safeguard for protecting critical data stored in your [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] databases. To minimize the risk of catastrophic data loss ...

Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure. SQL Server lets you disconnect a database from the main ...

Have you ever started SQL Server only to discover your database labeled “In Recovery,” you know how upsetting it can be—especially when the process appears to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ‘Suspect’ mode of the SQL database indicates that the recovery process has started but failed to complete. The database goes into suspect mode if the primary data file is damaged or the database ...

RESTORE is not allowed in an explicit or implicit transaction. Backups that are created by more recent version of [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] cannot be restored in earlier versions of [!INCLUDEssNoVersion].