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 ...

SQL Server transaction logs A transaction log is a sequential record of all changes made to the database while the actual data is contained in a separate file.

We have to perform this backup of the transaction log using either SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or T-SQL.

It is these transaction log backups that keep your transaction log file from growing too large. An easy way to make consistent transaction log backups is to include them as part of your database ...

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 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 ...

You really didn't read the post did you?<BR><BR>It's not that I'm not doing backups, I'm just not sure how often teh transaction logs should be backed up, and relative to when the full/diff is run ...

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 ...

Important concerns include where to store data files and transaction log files and how to optimize storage for multiple databases. For small database servers, you can get away with ignoring some ...

This problem arises because every SQL data modification first is written to the transaction log and then to the data file, but being that the transaction log has no room to hold any new changes ...