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 ...

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 ...

I'm not a DBA - my knowledge of SQL is limited to install, uninstall, backup, restore, troubleshoot connectivity, that sort of thing. That said, one of the servers I manage has a database that behaves ...

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 ...

If you don’t have a backup of your MS SQL database, then follow the below ways to recover deleted data. Transaction log files record each change made to the ...

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear or read about an organization seeing ginormous transaction log (.ldf) files, while the associated data (.mdf) file is at the size it should be when ...

Microsoft has two primary platform as a service (PaaS) offerings for SQL Server running Azure: Azure SQL Database, which is primarily used for new applications that were developed and grown in the ...