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 ...

I've been scratching my head about this for quite some time and can't quite figure it out. I have a share on Server1 (Windows 2008 R2) and Server2 (Windows 2012 R2) that I use to store SQL backups ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...

Yes, SQL Server 2005 allowed us for the first time to encrypt individual sensitive columns without the use of third-party products. However, the implementation required application code changes using ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...