The SQL Server backup and restore component provides an essential safeguard for protecting critical data stored in your [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] databases. To minimize the risk of catastrophic data loss ...

description: This article describes the benefits of backing up SQL Server databases and introduces backup and restore strategies and security considerations.

Computer database software such as Microsoft's SQL Server benefits all types of businesses, as it makes recordkeeping fast, flexible and secure. SQL Server lets you disconnect a database from the main ...

You don't need the transaction log to restore a database backup. Just take a full backup and restore it. You could also use the copy db wizard to copy the database ...

So I've had a case open with Microsoft since October concerning SQL databases that I cannot restore from DPM unless I run a consistency check on them first. Today, it seems they assigned to me yet ...