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Video: Help - My Transaction Log Is Full and Has Taken Up the Entire Disk! Emergency!

  • ·Skill level: 500 (Advanced)
  • ·Run Time: 18:02
  • ·Instructor: Scott Whigham

Description:

Real-World Scenario - your boss (or client) calls you at 4:54PM on Friday afternoon and says, "All of my people are getting an error working with Application X. Can you check what's going on?" You take a look and, sure enough, your transaction log has taken up the entire disk! Your data file is regular size but your transaction log is HUGE. What do you do? If you answered, "Take a transaction log backup" then you need to watch this video (because the log is full, it will not allow you to take a "traditional" transaction log backup). This video, recorded by resident SQL guru Scott Whigham, presents you with the What-If's, the Why's, and How To's of solving this very problem.

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Scott Whigham

Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott's full bio can be found here)


NOTE: This video is part of our SQL Server 2000 Database Administration course.
This video is from Chapter 11: Backup, Recovery, Log Shipping and More - Disaster Recovery for SQL Server 2000

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