In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

Once you disconnect a database, you must restore it from its .MDF file in a process called "attachment." SQL Server offers two ways to attach the .MDF file: via the Management Studio program's ...

i.e. if we move just the varbinary(max) column, and restore only the primary filegroup to another server, what happens if something accesses the File table? Will SQL Server blow up if 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 ...

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 ...