To open the SQL.BAK file in Excel, locate the file & rename it, restore .BAK file to SQL server, then export it to Excel. Continue reading to learn the detailed steps! If you want to open the SQL .BAK ...

SQL Server Data Files in Azure allows you to create databases in SQL Server running in on-premises or in a virtual machine with a dedicated durable location in Azure blob storage. As part of SQL 2016, ...

Full File Backups (SQL Server) [!INCLUDE SQL Server] This topic is relevant for [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] databases that contain multiple files or filegroups. The files in a [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] ...

Without the certificate or asymmetric key, the database cannot be restored. As a result, the certificate that is used to encrypt the database encryption key must be retained as long as the backup is ...

Professional Solution to Restore SQL Server Database From Inaccessible MDF File The manual solution provides above does not work, if the user doesn’t have a healthy database backup file.

The SQL Server Backup to Microsoft Azure Tool creates a ‘stub’ file with some metadata to use during restore. Use this file like your regular backup file when you wish to restore a database.

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...