This article helps you troubleshoot common SQL Server backup and restore operations issues. These problems include slow backup or restore performance, version compatibility errors, Always On ...

This topic describes how to prepare a database for an Always On availability group in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio, Transact-SQL, or PowerShell. Preparing a database requires two ...

SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

Over the years, servers have suffered terribly from malicious attacks that users had to take precautions now and then. Because of that, internet users need to determine how to repair a database in an ...

According to Microsoft, you can use the contained database model to make the database more portable. This prevents orphaned users after a restore by authenticating accounts directly at the database ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system that can support a wide range of applications, but the data must be readily available to those applications whenever they need it. Any ...

I have a SQL Server 2000 database and I need to put a functional copy of it on a laptop. I planned on doing a simple backup/restore to get it over there but I'm running into problems. 1st of all the ...