Backups Log truncation cannot occur during a backup or restore operation. In SQL Server 2005 and later, you can create a transaction log backup while a full or differential backup is occurring, but ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

Transaction logs are a vital yet often overlooked component of database architecture. They are often forgotten because they are not something actively maintained like the schema contained within a ...

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 Server ...

I am not an ms sql admin by any means but I do have to figure out why the sql server is eating up so much disk space. There are three databases. Last modified for the ...

I've been working with SQL Server for over 20 years now, Generally, I limit my tools to the things I might expect to find in a given client environment. My toolbox typically includes the tools that ...