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 ...

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 ...

Master database file or MDF file is a primary database file that contains fields, tables, indexes, stored procedures and other data in SQL Server. Like other data files, this file is also susceptible ...

Standardized database restore, doing some of pre-restore checks and post-restore configurations with restored databse. Doing also refresh of Availability Group databases, means restores into databases ...

Trying to restore a SQL .bak file created from one SQL server (2008) to a new database on another SQL server (2012). It's failing and saying that it is unable to get exclusive rights. Here's what I ...

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 ...