A full transaction log in SQL Server can bring your database to a screeching halt. Imagine it as a continuously running journal for all database changes—every insert, update, or delete. When this ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. We are excited to share that there are several Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) enhancements in SQL Server 2022 that further improve the overall ...

This script detects when there are sleeping sessions with open transactions older than 10 minutes by default. Such sessions can cause blocking and can prevent the transaction log from clearing, ...

Number of log files Azure Database Migration Service doesn’t support databases with multiple log files. If you have multiple log files, shrink and reorganize them into a single transaction log file.

Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure. When ...

--Check if any active replication transaction, if no long running replication transactions than run sp_repldone procedure to reset replication flag for log reuse wait ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

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 ...

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 ...