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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are two options that I'm aware of. I'm not a DBA either, but I've gotten my feet wet. The first is to truncate the logs using the SQL server's Enterprise Manager. The second is that when you do ...

Transaction logs in Exchange Server are very important. These are not just logs of what happens, transaction logs act as a buffer between the database and the users. Data is temporary kept in ...