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 ...

I considered trying<BR> DBCC SHRINKFILE (thedb_Log, 10, EMPTYFILE)<BR>but that looked somewhat spooky. Since this isn't 'my' db per se, and I'm just supposed to be helping out, I thought I'd see if ...

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...