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.

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...

Non-clustered index corruption leads to incorrect reading of the SQL database query or multiple read operations on the same value. SQL database in suspect mode: SQL database suspect mode is a frequent ...

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 ...

I'm helping to spec a database server which will run the database for an important business app (inventory & ordering) - unfortunately I'ma bit of a newb when it comes to this stuff. The server ...

To update DBF data, you can specify view descriptors in the SQL procedure's INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements. You can also use these statements to modify SAS data files. However, the ability to ...

How to Encrypt Credit Card Information in an SQL Database. Credit card information in your business's database is much more secure if you encrypt it. If you store this information as plain text ...

Fortinet fixes a critical SQL injection vulnerability in FortiWeb (CVE-2025-25257), posing risks to database security.

The primary conceptual difference from a regular SQL Server is that Compute-dependent components of the DBMS are abstracted apart from the Storage-dependent components. Here’s a very simplified ...