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 ...

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 ...

Architecture overview The custom log shipping solution is built using Microsoft’s native log shipping principles, where the transaction log backups are copied from the primary SQL Server instance to ...

Log File Viewer F1 Help [!INCLUDE SQL Server] Log File Viewer displays log information from many different components. When Log File Viewer is open, use the Select logs pane to select the logs you ...

Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

Let's look at an example. Fig. 1 shows a simple data flow that loads data from a flat file, called NewStores.txt, to a table in SQL Server called Stores_Staging. Fig. 2.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

Web server access log files are text files containing important data about server activities, client requests addressed to a server, server responses, etc. Large-scale analysis of these data can ...