Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!!! Your email has been sent Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim ...

I'm not a DBA - my knowledge of SQL is limited to install, uninstall, backup, restore, troubleshoot connectivity, that sort of thing. That said, one of the servers I manage has a database that behaves ...

With SQL Server 2000, there are myriad choices for backing up your database. Whether your database is small and changes infrequently or very large and changes rapidly, there is a backup strategy to ...

Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

In the ninth part of Robert Schifreen's SharePoint 2010 epic, he learns how one user can generate 16GB of logs in just three months. Creating a structure for our SharePoint 2010 installation was ...

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear or read about an organization seeing ginormous transaction log (.ldf) files, while the associated data (.mdf) file is at the size it should be when ...