No. The full <I>vs</I> simple recovery model only affects when transaction logs are truncated. In the simple model, the logs are truncated as soon as they are "clean" (that is, VLFs are truncated as ...

Organizations leverage the Simple recovery model if the data backed up is not critical, data is static or does not change often, or if loss is not a concern for the organization. In this situation, ...

Ok, I know that I'll need to set up Transaction Log backups, but I have two questions on this process: Background: Database is a VMware VM on a SAN, and the MDF is about 15GB. Recovery model is set to ...

With SQL Server 2000, there are myriad choices for backing up your database. Whether your database is small and changes infrequently or very large and changes rapidly, there is a backup strategy to ...

In an earlier blog entry, I talked about “Deprecated” code and I highlighted the fact that the BACKUP LOG WITH NO_LOG and BACKUP LOG WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY statements are no longer allowed in SQL Server ...

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear or read about an organization seeing ginormous transaction log (.ldf) files, while the associated data (.mdf) file is at the size it should be when ...