After experiencing weekly CDC failures caused by transaction log issues and logs suddenly chewing up disk space, I found myself repeatedly investigating the same questions: Why is the log so large?

Transaction logs are a vital yet often overlooked component of database architecture. They are often forgotten because they are not something actively maintained like the schema contained within a ...

Help! My SQL Server Log File is too big!!! Your email has been sent Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim ...

Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

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 performed ...

I would like to know how transaction log size is managed. I now know after some <BR>reading that I can checkpoint the database in order to allow dirty pages to write from ram to disk.I also know now ...