If you have accidently deleted data from database tables in MS SQL Server, you can restore the deleted data (tables) using Log Sequence Number (LSN). But for this, you need the transaction backup file ...

Good old FTP and flat file import will do the trick reliably and never take a day off. Here are the basic steps to automate an FTP download in Windows followed by a CSV insert into MS SQL Server.

The latest solutions in big data processing demand working with increasingly large amounts of data in ever shorter periods of time. In 2012, MS SQL introduced the ColumnStore (CS) Index.