How to Restore a SQL Database From a .MDF File. Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure. SQL ...

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 ...

Each database consists of one or more data files and one or more transaction log files. The transaction log stores the information about database transactions and all data modifications made by each ...

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 ...

This code is used to add a new log file to the database using the alter database command. Method 2-Recover Database from an Existing Backup If you fail to rebuild the corrupted Log files, then you can ...

View the Size of the Sparse File of a Database Snapshot (Transact-SQL) [!INCLUDE SQL Server] This topic describes how to use [!INCLUDE tsql] to verify that a [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] database file is a ...

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 ...