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 ...

The .bak backup file is the standard backup format of SQL Server, widely prevalent on on-premises Windows machines. Unfortunately, this format is not directly usable in Azure and lacks compatibility ...

In the Results pane, right-click the Microsoft SQL Server XML Showplan that contains the query plan, and then click Save Results As. In the Save <Grid or Text> Results dialog box, in the Save as type ...

Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server. To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job.

So here’s my default starting layout for any performance sensitive SQL Server environment: Disk 1: OS/SQL Binaries; Disk 2: System databases (aside from tempdb) Disk 3: tempdb; Disk 4: User databases; ...