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 ...

I considered trying<BR> DBCC SHRINKFILE (thedb_Log, 10, EMPTYFILE)<BR>but that looked somewhat spooky. Since this isn't 'my' db per se, and I'm just supposed to be helping out, I thought I'd see if ...

If you don’t have a backup of your MS SQL database, then follow the below ways to recover deleted data. Transaction log files record each change made to the ...

New DBA’s to SQL Server assume that the Full Database backup truncates the transaction log – it doesn’t. It does take a snapshot of the transaction log at the very end, so that transactions committed ...

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 ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

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 ...