Talk to any financial institution or bank they will be super paranoid when it comes to security and auditing policies applied to their organizations. In a recent session to one of our customers, I had to enter their premises and I had to go through some screening. From the entrance, car parking, reception, elevators and everywhere there was someone asking us for some information. The more I think about it, the more frustrated I become. After returning home, I thought through the complete incident with my family. I was pleasantly surprised the calmness at which they were talking to me about an audit process.
In this article we will examine what the SQL Server Transaction Log is, why do we need one and how it works.
History has its own way to define now civilizations thrived. Most of the cities flourished in the river side and transporting lumber was one of the key activity. Most of the cities like Seattle and many others have this boom and bust life. The idea here was to cut the timber upstream and use the natural flow of rivers to transport to factories downstream using the river. These are classic and wonderful examples of how we typically work with Log-Shipping in SQL Server too. This blog is about Transaction Log Shipping Status report.
When a novice DBA or Developer create a database they use SQL Server Management Studio to create new database. Additionally, the T-SQL script to create a database is very easy as well. You can just write CREATE DATABASE DatabaseName and it will create new database for you. The point to remember here is that it will create the database at the default location specified in SQL Server Instance (this default instance, can be changed and we will see that in future blog posts). Now, once the database files goes in production it will start to grow.
I recently got following email from one of the readers. It is about Backup Log file.
