Your database may get damaged due to several reasons. A backup will help you to restore the database lost in case of disasters and problems, like hardware failure, virus attack, or others. How To ...

SQL Server supports three main types of backups: full, differential, and transaction log. A full backup copies the entire database and its metadata, and it is the base for restoring the database ...

A full backup of a database with one or more memory-optimized tables consist of the allocated storage for disk-based tables, active transaction log and the data/delta file pairs (i.e. checkpoint file ...