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 ...

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 ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come ...

WRITELOG —When a SQL Server session waits on the WRITELOG wait type, it’s waiting to write the contents of the log cache (user delete/update/inserts operations) to the disk where the transaction log ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Think of a mechanism that can automatically log all changes to your database tables; how valuable could those log values be to database administrators. With Microsoft SQL Server ...

If you have accidently deleted data from database tables in MS SQL Server, you can restore the deleted data (tables) using Log Sequence Number (LSN). But for this, you need the transaction backup file ...

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.

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...