SQL Server Database Format for Advance Steel

Learn how to use SQL Server Management Studio for complex database editing operations.

To view and edit the Advance Steel databases, you can use the Table Editor functionality in the Management Tools application. For more complex editing operations, it is recommended you use SQL Server Management Studio.

For each of the MDF Advance Steel databases, a corresponding LDF file with an identical name will be automatically created when Advance Steel connects to the database. The LDF file will be placed in the same disk location as its corresponding MDF database.

A LDF is a log file that contains a log of the recent actions executed against the database, and it is used to track events so that the database can recover from hardware failures or other unexpected shutdowns.

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