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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

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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)

Chapter 9: Disaster Recovery: Backup, Recovery, Clustering, Mirroring, Log Shipping
1 Backup and Recovery - An Introduction to the Three Main Types of Backups in SQL Server 2000
2 Backup Devices, Backup Sets, Database Dumps and Media Sets
Help - My Transaction Log Is Full and Has Taken Up the Entire Disk! Emergency!
4 SQL Server 2005 Transaction Log Is Full - log_reuse_wait_desc and sys.databases Error
5 Pt. 1 - An Overview of SQL Server Clustering
6 Pt. 2 - An Overview of SQL Server Clustering
7 Pt. 1 - An Overview of the Active/Passive (Single Instance) Cluster
8 Pt. 2 - Setting Up an Active/Passive (Single Instance) Cluster
9 Pt. 3 - Reviewing the Cluster Installation
10 Pt. 4 - Installing the Client Tools and Managing the Cluster
11 Pt. 1 - Installing Service Pack 2 on Your SQL Server Cluster
12 Pt. 2 - Verifying the Service Pack Installation
13 Pt. 1 - Transactions and Failover
14 Pt. 2 - Transactions and Failover
15 Pt. 1 - An Introduction to Log Shipping in SQL Server 2005
16 Pt. 2 - Log Shipping Concepts, Architecture and Requirements
17 Pt. 3 - Why Use Log Shipping? Pros/Cons of Log Shipping and Mirroring/Clustering
18 Pt. 4 - How to Set Up Log Shipping Using SQL Server Management Studio's Properties Window
19 Pt. 5 - Configuring the Standby Server for NORECOVERY and Using a Monitor Server
20 Pt. 6 - Configuring the Standby Server for READ ONLY / STANDBY Access
21 Pt. 7 - How to Failover Your Log Shipped Database to the Standby Server
22 Pt. 8 - Log Shipping Security: Credentials, Jobs, Proxy Accounts, Login SIDs and More

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This video is from Chapter 9: Disaster Recovery: Backup, Recovery, Clustering, Mirroring, Log Shipping

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