Auditing an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine or an individual database involves tracking and logging events that occur on the Database Engine. SQL Server audit lets you create server audits, ...

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 ...

The databases and their log files reside on a separate disk subsystem, but "errorlog" sits under C Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\LOG According to explorer it is 3.4Gb, but checking the file ...

[!INCLUDE SQL Server] Beginning in [!INCLUDEssSQL11], you can view [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] log files from a local or remote instance of [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] when the target instance is offline or ...

When all queries against a SQL Server instance or a particular database application are slow, the cause is often outside any single query. This article helps database administrators and application ...