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A Picture That Says, “Don’t Shrink!” (and other things…)

by Mike Walsh on 19. Jun, 2009 in Best Practices, Learn From Mistakes, Pet Peeve, Syndicate, Troubleshooting

So I wrote a lot of posts around shrinking (Here, here, here). Some of my posts were turned into a wiki article on SQLServerPedia. I thought I was done posting about this but one more.
I talked about why we shouldn’t do it on a regular basis. Why it should really be reserved for use in [...]

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Manage Your Transactions (So They Don’t Manage You – Part 2)

by Mike Walsh on 16. Apr, 2009 in Best Practices, Performance, Pet Peeve, SQL Server, Shrinking & Transactions, Syndicate

This is the final in a series on shrinking and transactions. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
In part 1, we talked about factors that affect transaction log growth. We talked about what a SQL Server transaction is and the various modes SQL interacts with a transaction (Autocommit, Implicit Transactions and Explicit [...]

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Manage Your Transactions (So they don’t manage you – Part 1)

by Mike Walsh on 09. Apr, 2009 in Best Practices, Pet Peeve, Recovery, SQL Server, Shrinking & Transactions, Syndicate

This is part 3 in a series on shrinking and transaction management. Click here for part 4. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
If you are one of the people who have been reading this blog, you know where I stand on shrinking databases/log files. I don’t like the practice (Post 1, Post [...]

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Shrinking is a popular topic…

by Mike Walsh on 31. Jan, 2009 in DBA, SQL Server, Shrinking & Transactions, Syndicate

This is part 2 in a series on Shrinking “Best Practices” and logging. Click here for part 3. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
A while back I posted about not touching the shrink button. I am still finding it fun to see what search queries bring traffic to my blog [...]

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