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 ...

Microsoft SQL Server uses a Master Data File (MDF) to store its primary data files. Considered the backbone of SQL Server, it acts as an SQL database accommodated into a file. This MDF file comprises ...

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 ...

Recently, a sudden power outage at our work caused an unclean shutdown of the SQL Server databases. Restarting the server started the recovery of each database. We were able to restore most of the ...

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 ...

So I've had a case open with Microsoft since October concerning SQL databases that I cannot restore from DPM unless I run a consistency check on them first. Today, it seems they assigned to me yet ...