This project demonstrates essential tasks of a Database Administrator (DBA) using a retail dataset. It includes data import, normalization, query performance optimization, stored procedures, and ...

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Backing up SQL databases is essential for data protection and disaster recovery, and storing backups on a network share reduces the risk of data loss even more. Why Backup SQL Databases to a Network ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

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 ...

There don't appear to be any logs for the backup operation - are they stored somewhere unexpected? I have noticed that on times when the service gets killed, the backup file for that day is much ...