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 ...

One reoccurring SQL Server question that I see: Why is my TempDB database so large and what can I go to reduce the size of TempDB? The answer requires some basic understanding of the internals of how ...

Listen to a group of database professionals talk for awhile and someone will eventually bring up the topic of data deduplication. Data deduplication is a means to eliminate redundant data, either ...

Chongwei Chen is the President & CEO of DataNumen, a global data recovery leader with solutions trusted by Fortune 500 companies worldwide. As a data-recovery expert with 24 years of experience, I ...