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Learn how transaction log truncation works in SQL Server to maintain database health and prevent uncontrolled growth.

If the transaction log is growing too large then you should increase the frequency of log backups. (The Full database backup does not actually truncate the transaction log at all).

[!INCLUDE SQL Server] This topic discusses possible responses to a full transaction log and suggests how to avoid it in the future. The appropriate response to a full transaction log depends partly on ...

Learn what the transaction log is, how it works, and how it helps SQL Server to restore and recover databases from backups or disasters.

In SQL Server 2005 and later, you can create a transaction log backup while a full or differential backup is occurring, but the log backup will not truncate the log due to the fact that the entire ...

So I'm trying to figure out when I should be backing my transaction logs relative to my full/diffs. It seems like right after would be when I'd want to have the checkpoint happen, or does it ...

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.