Ok, so my boss wants me to find out about making some log files smaller. For example, one database has a data file that's about 50 MB, and the log file is about 550MB. He wants to clear up space and a ...

I have a database on SQL Server 2000 which is about 6GB but the LDF file is 100GB. I have been doing some research on the matter and found out that I have several options. Switch to Simple mode, or ...

New DBA’s to SQL Server assume that the Full Database backup truncates the transaction log – it doesn’t. It does take a snapshot of the transaction log at the very end, so that transactions committed ...

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 ...

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 ...