SQL Server Management Studio restores the database. In addition to your .MDF file, you will have an accompanying .LDF. The .LDF contains database log information, which SQL Server uses to maintain ...

Specifically, SQL Server 2012 offers Business Intelligence to help companies analyze business data, an AlwaysOn availability and uptime enhancement, Contained Databases for managing databases as a ...

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 ...

SQL Server transaction logs A transaction log is a sequential record of all changes made to the database while the actual data is contained in a separate file. The transaction log contains enough ...