Dealing with data in a Docker container is more difficult than it is in a virtual machine or physical server. Containers are inherently stateless, while database management systems like SQL Server ...

This book aims to give you a strong understanding of SQL Server’s backup and restore functionality, how does it fare? This is a short book, consisting of around 150 pages, divided into 11 chapters.

Master database file or MDF file is a primary database file that contains fields, tables, indexes, stored procedures and other data in SQL Server. Like other data files, this file is also susceptible ...

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 ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

Make sure that all of the volumes containing the above files are included in the backup. For example, if your databases are located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data\ and log ...

The SQL Server Database Growth Monitoring project aimed to automate database space monitoring and proactively identify when a database data file approaches its configured storage threshold. The goal ...