Log files can be damaged due to malware or virus attacks on the system hosting the SQL server; If the SQL Server account permissions and configuration are modified incorrectly, it can impact the log ...

We have to perform this backup of the transaction log using either SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or T-SQL. Well, let me stop for a minute ...

Using the Transact SQL ALTER DATABASE statement to shrink the transaction log file. Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and click Query Analyzer to open the Query Analyzer window.

In SQL Server 2005 and later, you can create a transaction log backup while a full or differential backup is occurring, but the log backup will not truncate the log due to the fact that the entire ...

But SQL Server itself provides you with no way to see what's in the transaction log. If something goes wrong with your database, you can restore from a backup -- but there's no way to see in advance ...

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 ...

In SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you can see the SQL Server database state. Alternatively, you can use T-SQL commands to verify your database status. You can use the DATABASEPROPERTYEX function ...