Log files can be damaged due to malware or virus attacks on the system hosting the SQL server; If the SQL Server account permissions and configuration are modified incorrectly, it can impact the log ...

Alternatively, you can use the T-SQL commands to restore a database file or filegroup. RESTORE DATABASE [Northwind] FILE = N'Northwind' FROM DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL ...

How to Restore a SQL Database From a .MDF File. Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure.

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 ...

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 ...

So I have a specific database that won't release and shrink its log files. The DB backups are happening successfully, but I still have 4GB of logfiles (and no, this DB does not generate 4GB of log ...

These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database backups through Microsoft SQL Server. by navigating to the backup utility and loading the ...

Each database has at least one physical transaction log and one data file that is exclusive to the database for which it was created. SQL Server keeps a buffer of all of the changes to data for ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it ...