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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A Picture That Says, “Don’t Shrink!” (and other things…)
Manage Your Transactions (So They Don’t Manage You – Part 2)
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 [...]
Manage Your Transactions (So they don’t manage you – Part 1)
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 [...]
Shrinking is a popular topic…
When I started blogging, my first posts were on shrinking. That’s still a popular search. Why?
Don’t Touch that Shrink Button!
This post is part 1 in a series on shrinking and transaction management. Part 2 is linked at the bottom or here. You can see them all in the Shrinking & Transactions category.
This topic has indeed been done to death. Yet I still often encounter unnecessary database autoshrinks, scheduled shrink jobs and at times a seeming [...]
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