This may be the typical situation within your database environment where the you might have killed a SPID (Process) that has been running for long time, without knowing the ROLLBACK operations for such processes. Say if you are executing a stored procedure which is built with a transactional based statements...
Have you ever wondered about flushing databases? Well not quite possible to flush it straight away and not a best practice too on the live server, so what it is about and you need to know about transactions state when they occur. Say when the changes occur in a database the changes are formed as transactions...
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One of the user has been confused to see lot of .TUF file within their server where the log shipping is enabled. Basically this .tuf file is the T ransaction U ndo F ile, which is created when performing log shipping to a server in Standby mode. So if you ask why standby mode, database recovery is done...
Database Mirroring - new feature from SQL Server 2005 within High Availability ranch, a software based solution for database availability. Very important for the DBAs to keep up the database recovery model to FULL at all the times to achieve the High Availability per database level, as the feature behind...
Whenever the SQL Server is struggling to write the transactions to the disk, you would observe WRITELOG wait type within SP_WHO2 results. So when you observer such wait types then you should be worried on the disks performance, either you plan for shrinking the transaction log (which is a temporary workaround...
Another frequently asked questions in the forums and newsgroups, I have seen similar ones recently. I believe most of the newbie users ask this question and even more as interview based questions. So here is the catch in order to accomplish the task, say you need to provide a solution to log and show...
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The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge Base Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise X64 Edition Notification Contents: New and All Modifications FIX: Error message when you restore a transaction-log backup that is generated in SQL Server 2000 SP4 to an instance of SQL Server...
Say which is better, having multiple transaction log backups files or single transaction log backup file during a recovery point of time. In my experience both of them doesn't make any difference and if you are performing further backup to tape then ensure to test them by restoring on to the standby...
Since SQL Server version 2000 better enhancement of three types of recovery models: simple, full and bulk-logged are fetching long-run support for all kinds of database activies. As you know such recovery models offer varying levels of recovery for restoring your databases from your backups, overall...
I always see many posts in the forums asking about transaction log backups and their importance. For the point in time recovery they are must in order to provide the data upto date or atleast that are committed. Yet I have seen many articles out there explaining the importance and tasks for every DBA...