In an earlier blog entry, I talked about “Deprecated” code and I highlighted the fact that the BACKUP LOG WITH NO_LOG and BACKUP LOG WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY statements are no longer allowed in SQL ...

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.

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.

I would like to ask about transaction log backups. I have a transaction log that is around 16gigs I have started to do full database backups every night. To my understanding a full database backup ...

SQL Server transaction logs A transaction log is a sequential record of all changes made to the database while the actual ... The truncation process involves marking old records as inactive so ...