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 ...

Lumigent calls this application a "transaction analysis and data recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server." I call it an essential tool for the SQL Server 7.0 or SQL Server 2000 DBA whose users make ...

SQL Server, of course, keeps track of everything that affects data in a transaction log, which is periodically rolled over into backup files (at least, if you're being a conscientious DBA it is). But ...

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 ...

The system maintains transactional integrity—the guarantee that each completed transaction is saved even during a system outage—by writing transactions separately to a log file.

I would like to know how transaction log size is managed. I now know after some reading that I can checkpoint the database in order to allow dirty pages to write from ram to disk.I also know now ...

If the transaction log and database are in the same device you can't do a transaction log dump. In this case you need do a Truncate Log on Checkpoint.

The system maintains transactional integrity — the guarantee that each completed transaction is saved even during a system outage — by writing transactions separately to a log file.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...