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The Transaction Log (SQL Server) [!INCLUDE SQL Server] Every [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] database has a transaction log that records all transactions and the database modifications made by each transaction ...

I'm considering dumping our transaction logs to disk more frequently/truncating our logs more frequently. We don't provide up to the second-last successfull transaction restoration in this ...

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 ...

In an earlier blog entry, I talked about “Deprecated” code and I highlighted the fact that the BACKUP LOG WITH NO_LOG and BACKUP LOG WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY statements are no longer allowed in SQL ...

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 ...

If left alone, this ginormous transaction log file will continue to grow until it reaches the maximum size set by the SQL Server DBA, or until the physical drive containing the transaction log ...