How to Open a Microsoft SQL Server .Bak File. 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 ...

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 offers the tool as part of the Microsoft SQL Server Feature Pack, or you can download just the Provider installation file.

For both Hyper-V virtual hard drives and SQL database files, using a scale-out file share on servers running Windows Server 2012 can really help ensure availability — and you don’t even need a ...