Download the appropriate .bak file from one of the links provided in the Download backup files section of this article. Move the .bak file to your SQL Server backup location. This location varies ...

SQL Server provides tutorials to help you learn new technologies and features. Tutorials for earlier versions can usually be used with more recent versions. When tutorials address a newer feature, ...

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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 ...

Back in the earlier part of the year (February maybe?), I put this tutorial together for our early adopters in the SQL Server 2025 program. It’s a guide for setting up SQL Server 2025 in a Hyper-V VM ...

It's important to plan for security before you configure your replication topology. This tutorial shows you how to better secure a replication topology. It also shows you how to configure distribution ...

To satisfy compliance standards, internal regulations or basic security principles, applications often need to limit a user’s access to only certain rows of data in a database. For example: An oil and ...

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is Microsoft’s full feature extract-transform-load (ETL) tool in SQL Server 2005 and beyond. SSIS is used to extract data from any of a myriad of sources, such ...