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 ...

This article describes how to create a full database backup in [!INCLUDE[ssnoversion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] using [!INCLUDE[ssManStudioFull ...

A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

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 ...

I have a SQL Server database that's 145GB, about 80% of that space is occupied by "files". Staff have the ability to upload files from the web front end application into the database, this is used to ...