You can save a backup of your MS SQL databases to a single file on your hard drive. These backup files have names ending with the ".bak" file extension, and you use them to restore database backups ...

PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) files contain database code that represents information that you can manipulate using Oracle operating systems and database programs. You open a ...

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 ...

Microsoft announced roadmap shift on Monday, indicating that it will focus on supporting the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) approach for SQL Server application programming interfaces (APIs) in the ...

Cockroach Labs is also offering its enterprise features as open source and trusting enterprises will pay for what they use in production CockroachDB, an open source, fault-tolerant SQL database with ...

Microsoft introduced a new service into its "intelligent edge" portfolio at the recent Build conference. Here's how Azure SQL Database Edge will fit into the company's broader vision for a more ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...