There could be many reasons why you need to restore a database. Let’s look at some common reasons. The server has been re-installed, after failure. The database gets corrupted or is not mounting.

Database Mail, a new addition to the SQL Server 2005 database engine, is as simple to use as it is useful. Destined to be the replacement for SQL Mail, Database Mail uses a Simple Mail Transfer ...

For this blog post, I’m going to jump right into a topic of most interest to organizations deploying Exchange Server 2010, which is Disaster Recovery of databases. New to Exchange 2010 is the concept ...

I want to enable notifications for SQL Agent for my backup jobs.<BR><BR>I configured database mail and that works, it sent me a test message.<BR><BR>However, when I go to tell the SQL Agent to use it, ...

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 offered a glimpse of Exchange Server 2016 at its Ignite event for IT pros this week. The new mail server's bits have been undergoing testing by Technology Adoption Program participants since ...