A deferred transaction in SQL Server Enterprise occurs if data required by rollback is offline. Learn how to move them out of the deferred state. Corrupted transactions are deferred only in ...

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if exists(select * from sys.tables t join sys.schemas s on t.schema_id = s.schema_id where s.name = 'dbo' and t.name = 'ForwardingPointers') drop table dbo ...

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 ...

I'm considering dumping our transaction logs to disk more frequently/truncating our logs more frequently. We don't provide up to the second-last successfull transaction restoration in this particular ...

LUMIGENT TECHNOLOGIES ON Monday plans to release Log Explorer Version 3.0, which allows users to identify causes of problems in Microsoft SQL Server databases and recover data. The product uses the ...

I'm trying to recover an earlier version of a database from a tape. I've got the bak file and all of the TRNs in a folder on a different server (wanted to restore it to our testlab sql server). From ...