Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure. SQL Server lets you disconnect a database from the main ...

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 ...

Standardized database restore, doing some of pre-restore checks and post-restore configurations with restored databse. Doing also refresh of Availability Group databases, means restores into databases ...

A solid database backup plan is just as critical in the cloud as it is on-premise, but running SQL Server on Azure virtual machine introduces a few new issues. Presented by Datavail's Andy McDermid ...

I'm trying to recover an earlier version of a database from a tape. I've got the bak file and all of the TRNs in a folder on a different server (wanted to restore it to our testlab sql server). From ...

I'm having a whole host of problems it seems.<BR><BR>Anyway PROD and DEV box.<BR><BR>I'm trying to test the PROD backups by restoring them to the DEV box.<BR><BR>I have two problems:<BR>First- SSMS ...