One of the major challenges that SQL Server admins face nowadays is corruption in MDF file. When a database is corrupted, it goes into the suspect state or you may fail to access the tables, stored ...

If you don’t have a backup of your MS SQL database, then follow the below ways to recover deleted data. Transaction log files record each change made to the ...

Microsoft has two primary platform as a service (PaaS) offerings for SQL Server running Azure: Azure SQL Database, which is primarily used for new applications that were developed and grown in the ...

The design of a database determines what method is best suited for backing it up, and those methods vary quite a bit. In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also ...

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

As mentioned in my post on VLDBs, one of the key pieces of a high performing solution is the use of Read-only Filegroups. If a significant part of your data is not changing, then why not tell SQL ...

I would like to know how transaction log size is managed. I now know after some <BR>reading that I can checkpoint the database in order to allow dirty pages to write from ram to disk.I also know now ...