In this article we’ll examine how transaction logs are used in Microsoft SQL Server, maintenance and potential problems with them, how they can be used to restore a database, and finally ...

SQL Server, of course ... and a transaction log (either live or backed up). Then you can view every transaction in the log -- what happened, when it happened, who the user was, and exactly ...

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 ...

Every SQL Server database has at least two files; a data file and a transaction log file. The data file stores user and system data while the transaction log file stores all transactions and ...

but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging. Why turn off the transaction log? It is the main guarantor of transactional ...

We have to perform this backup of the transaction log using either SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or T-SQL. Well, let me stop for a minute… because there is another way we can prevent log ...

In Exchange Server, transaction logs act as a buffer storage between the user, memory, and database. Transaction logs are generated constantly and purged after a successful backup of the database. If ...

Normally this would require restoring the full DB backup from Thursday night at 9:30pm onto a separate SQL server, then the last diff backup from Friday morning, and the remaining transaction log ...

SQL Server, of course, keeps track of everything that affects ... You choose a server, a database, and a transaction log (either live or backed up). Then you can view every transaction in the log -- ...