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 ...

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 with a ...

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 ...

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 with a ...

I'm considering dumping our transaction logs to disk more frequently/truncating our logs more frequently. We don't provide up to the second-last successfull transaction restoration in this particular ...

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m not a DBA, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t overseen databases and their performance. I was (and probably still am) the guy who installed a Microsoft SQL database by hitting Next ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

I would like to know how transaction log size is managed. I now know after some <BR>reading that I can checkpoint the database in order to allow dirty pages to write from ram to disk.I also know now ...