Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!!! Your email has been sent Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder. FileTables is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012. It's a ...

However, SQL Server data files (MDF and NDF) can get inaccessible due to a variety of reasons and paralyze all business operations. What can be done, if there is no backup of the corrupt database ...

Good old FTP and flat file import will do the trick reliably and never take a day off. Here are the basic steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server.

What is the T-SQL I need to use in order to delete files older than 'x' days? Since I'm not backing up the SQL 2000 dbs to the same directory, I can't use a maintenance plan.