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 ...

RESTORE DATABASE [Northwind] FILE = N'Northwind' FROM DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Backup\Northwind.bak' WITH FILE = 7, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 ...

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 ...

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.

Attendees will come to understand some of the advantages of using SQL Server in Azure by examining cloud-friendly ... We'll also look at some of tools and techniques available to manage backup files ...