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 ...

SQL Server keeps a buffer of all of the changes to data for performance reasons. It writes items to the transaction log immediately, but does not write changes to the data file immediately.

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 ...

Denny's SQL Secrets Exploring SQL Server's Distributed Transactions Here's what you need to know about distributed transaction and when you should use one. By Denny Cherry 02/27/2014 ...

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 ...

I turned off the transaction log backup but forgot to move it and turn it on elsewhere, so of course the log file eventually filled up the 133GB space we'd allocated for logs. So...anyway I need ...

We normally think of distributed transactions just within the scope of a SQL Server transaction. However, you can also put things like file system access by a .NET application within a distributed ...