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 ...

Bringing up Enterprise Manager -> Server -> Managment -> SQL Server log shows this file and 6 archives. I can open the archives, but clicking on the 3.4Gb file locks the machine. I don't see a way to ...

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 ...