To open the SQL.BAK file in Excel, locate the file & rename it, restore .BAK file to SQL server, then export it to Excel. Continue reading to learn the detailed steps! If you want to open the SQL .BAK ...

description: This article shows you how to restore files to a new location in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL.

SQL Server Data Files in Azure allows you to create databases in SQL Server running in on-premises or in a virtual machine with a dedicated durable location in Azure blob storage. As part of SQL 2016, ...

Full File Backups (SQL Server) [!INCLUDE SQL Server] This topic is relevant for [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] databases that contain multiple files or filegroups. The files in a [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] ...

SQL Server 2014 CTP2 includes three SQL Server Backup and Restore enhancements. These enhancements enable using Windows Azure for backups, providing options to ease and automate backup management, and ...

Professional Solution to Restore SQL Server Database From Inaccessible MDF File The manual solution provides above does not work, if the user doesn’t have a healthy database backup file.

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...