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 ...

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 happens on SQL Server 2012 and 2008, on Win 2012 and 2008 servers. DPM is 2012 (not R2). The databases are from different software packages, some Microsoft, some not.

If you store this information as plain text, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through online SQL queries or by scanning the files on the database server's hard drive.