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 ...

So I have a specific database that won't release and shrink its log files. The DB backups are happening successfully, but I still have 4GB of logfiles (and no, this DB does not generate 4GB of log ...

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 ...