“For them, each transaction is money,” Kelly said. More details will be given about the new features in SQL Server 2014 in the months ahead.

Some examples of fully durable transactions on SQL Server 2014 include system transactions, cross-database transactions, and transactions involved with FileTable, Change Tracking, and Change Data ...

SQL Server 2012 then borrowed this columnar processing technique for its own use. As an example of how the new SQL Server could speed performance, Kelly explained how a retail chain could benefit ...

You can also use distributed transactions whenever there's SQL Server to SQL Server communication and changes will be made to data during the course of the transaction, often done via a linked ...

If the transaction log and database are in the same device you can't do a transaction log dump. In this case you need do a Truncate Log on Checkpoint. You also can't dump the log if the Select ...

SQL defaults to 0 which I think checkpoints every 60 seconds or so.. and to me unless you have a DB that does not scale well to the task and has massive writes and a poorly configured disk system ...

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 ...

But SQL Server itself provides you with no way to see what's in the transaction log. If something goes wrong with your database, you can restore from a backup -- but there's no way to see in ...

SQLNitro was recently clocked with a roundtrip speed of 206 milliseconds between traders in Korea and an SQL Server in Exeter, NH. The transaction was 31% faster than any previous test done by the ...

A must-have tool for the professional DBA. By Mike Gunderloy 01/09/2002 Lumigent calls this application a "transaction analysis and data recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server." I call it an ...