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 ...

In SQL Server 2005 and later, you can create a transaction log backup while a full or differential backup is occurring, but the log backup will not truncate the log due to the fact that the entire ...

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.

New DBA’s to SQL Server assume that the Full Database backup truncates the transaction log – it doesn’t.

I would like to know how transaction log size is managed. I now know after some reading that I can checkpoint the database in order to allow dirty pages to write from ram to disk.I also know now ...