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

The system maintains transactional integrity-the guarantee that each completed transaction is saved even during a system outage-by writing transactions separately to a log file.

The system maintains transactional integrity—the guarantee that each completed transaction is saved even during a system outage—by writing transactions separately to a log file.

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 ...