It’s T-SQL Tuesday, the blog party that SQL Server expert Adam Machanic (blog|Twitter) started. This month’s episode is hosted by Jens Vestergaard (blog | Twitter). The topic: Favorite SQL Server Feature. And my favorite SQL Server feature is not any of the latest and greatest ones. That might come as a surprise but at the end of the blog […]
PostWhen A Log Backup Does Not Truncate Your SQL Server Log Files In An Availability Group
There are only two ways that can truncate your SQL Server log files – a checkpoint process when the database is in simple (or pseudo-simple) recovery model or a log backup when the database is in full or bulk-logged recovery models. In order for log truncation to occur, the virtual log files (VLFs) need to […]
PostBefore You Go Down The Rabbit Hole
One of my favorite topics in SQL Server is transaction log internals. When I first got started with SQL Server, I thought all I needed to do with the transaction log was to run regular log backups to make sure they don’t grow unexpectedly. Until I realized that there was more to it than I knew. […]
