Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...

SQL Server transaction logs A transaction log is a sequential record of all changes made to the database while the actual data is contained in a separate file.

I have visions of regularly dumping and clearing Windows event logs and storing them in the medium-long term in a SQL database.Why? So I can query them -"Show me all previous occurances of this ...