Delayed durability offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years-the ability to disable transaction logging. Why turn off the transaction log? You can accelerate ...

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

So I'm trying to figure out when I should be backing my transaction logs relative to my full/diffs. It seems like right after would be when I'd want to have the checkpoint happen, or does it ...

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...

Using the Transact SQL ALTER DATABASE statement to shrink the transaction log file Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and click Query Analyzer to open the Query Analyzer window.

The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems.

The system maintains transactional integrity — the guarantee that each completed transaction is saved even during a system outage — by writing transactions separately to a log file.

Under SQL Server 7.0, for example, you can specify that logins — both successful and failed — be written to the Windows 2000 (or Windows NT) application log, which you view using the Event Viewer.