With single and pooled databases in Azure SQL Database, there are workload patterns where the allocation of underlying data files for databases can become larger than the amount of used data pages.

These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database backups through Microsoft SQL Server. by navigating to the backup utility and loading the ...

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 ...

If you have accidently deleted data from database tables in MS SQL Server, you can restore the deleted data (tables) using Log Sequence Number (LSN). But for this, you need the transaction backup file ...

Beyond that, there can be contention for busy system pages in TempDB, so creating multiple TempDB database files is a best practice (which is enabled by default starting with SQL Server 2016) to ...

Every SQL Server database has at least two files; a data file and a transaction log file. The data file stores user and system data while the transaction log file stores all transactions and ...