Analyzing your transaction log files directly can provide a wealth of information. Tools like SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) offer functions to view log contents. However, reading the raw log ...

Troubleshoots the issue where transaction log file grows continuously for databases with In-Memory OLTP enabled in SQL Server 2022. If you restart the SQL Server instance, you might notice the ...

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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.

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.

Find out how organizations avoid extremely large transaction log (.ldf) files. There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear or read about an organization seeing ginormous transaction log ...