Once you disconnect a database, you must restore it from its .MDF file in a process called "attachment." SQL Server offers two ways to attach the .MDF file: via the Management Studio program's ...

Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!!! Your email has been sent Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim ...

I have a SQL Server database that's 145GB, about 80% of that space is occupied by "files". Staff have the ability to upload files from the web front end application into the database, this is used ...

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 ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

What is the T-SQL I need to use in order to delete files older than 'x' days? Since I'm not backing up the SQL 2000 dbs to the same directory, I can't use a maintenance plan.