Delayed durability offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years-the ability to disable transaction logging. Why turn off the transaction log? You can accelerate ...

The file growth value that is configured for the SQL Server database transaction log file is 4 gigabytes (GB) or multiples thereof (for example, 8 GB, 12 GB, and so on). However, the transaction log ...

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...

This project provides a solution for automatically restoring SQL Server transaction log backups. Implemented as a .NET application that runs as a Windows service, it provides the following features: ...

I would like to ask about transaction log backups. I have a transaction log that is around 16gigs I have started to do full database backups every night. To my understanding a full database backup ...

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 ...