Truncation means that the transactions that were backed up are removed from the log file, freeing up space within the log file for new transactions. The truth is, if you don’t backup the transaction ...

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 ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

Well, yesterday's major screw up 5-alarm screw-up: SQL Server 2000 and rolling back transactions has gotten me to think that we need to reassess our backup strategy specifically with regards to ...

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 ...