SQL Server Management Studio restores the database. In addition to your .MDF file, you will have an accompanying .LDF. The .LDF contains database log information, which SQL Server uses to maintain ...

SQL Server 2012 introduces a lot of new features which ... and the new feature called partially contained databases. Having said all of that, it’s important to remember that AlwaysOn is about branding ...

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 ...

The remaining individual databases responses -- Redis, Cassandra and Oracle -- all garnered less than about 8 percent of responses, while all other offerings were clumped into an "Other" category that ...

Read now A new malware gang has made a name for itself over the past few months by hacking into Microsoft SQL Servers (MSSQL ... the MrbMiner C&C server also contained versions of the group's ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of the history of your data. Here's how to retrieve that historical data. In an earlier column, I showed how ...