We often noticed that error code 3930 in SQL Server troubles users a lot. Thus, after our detailed research and testing on multiple SQL databases, we’re here with the most The post Error Code 3930 in SQL Server – Complete Overview appeared first on SQL Server Log Explorer - Insight Details of SQL Server ..read more

Have you ever wondered about how to maintain a record of every modification made to a table within a SQL database? If yes, then this blog post is the best place for all your answers! We will discuss the idea of table data modification logs, as well as the justifications and methods for keeping track of them. Overview of Data Modification Logs For Tables Table data modification logs serve as a kind of journal, documenting any changes and additions made to your data. They aid in your comprehension of the changes that were made, who made them, and why. If you have access to these logs then you ..read more

Nowadays, SQL server is used to maintain the database activities for professional purpose. In general, two operations like rebuilding indexes and updating statistics should be executed within the database. Users often ask does rebuild index update statistics, so this blog has all the answers. So, in this blog, we are going to discuss about update statistics and rebuild the index and also describing the need to update statistics before and after rebuilding indexes in SQL server. In a nutshell, here, users can understand update statistics vs rebuild index difference as a whole. Table of Conten ..read more

Disable indexes feature is available in SQL Server 2005 and all the later versions to prevent user access to the index. In Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and earlier versions of the SQL Server only have a DROP index and RE-CREATE index option. Disable indexes are very useful feature when we need to recognize whether the indexes are useful or not. The index definition remains in metadata when we are disabling an index and index statistics are kept on non-cluster indexes. Let’s continue understand the enable and disable index in SQL server task. Table of Content User Queries Using Transact-SQL (Di ..read more

Users need to set SQL server long running transaction alert which is one of the main reasons behind the log filling up. Also, this transaction makes the log remain active from the virtual log file containing the start of the transaction. Log truncation is restricted from that virtual file onward causing the log to grow in size & affect the complete operations of the database. Hence, it is necessary to monitor long-running transactions. Evidently, on the page, we will be discussing techniques to set SQL server long running transaction alert. Sometimes such issues can be resolved by fixing ..read more

As everybody knows data recovery is an expensive and time-consuming process, therefore, taking regular backups can save lots of time. Backup helps users in restoring data back in the case of disaster. There are some situations in which while executing the backup process of the database in the SQL Server, a user may encounter some errors. However, a user is not able to understand the exact reason behind the occurrence of this error. Therefore, users are constantly querying about the cause of the same i.e. exact reason behind the SQL Server operating system error 3. Thus, in this post, all poss ..read more

Introduction At the time of batch processing, SQL Server 2008 frequently shows a SQL error 4014 on screen and details of the message in event log is as below: The error stated above suggest that there is some problem with the network due to which the data packets at the network are dropped. There are different reasons for which this error is recorded in the error log of SQL Server. The SQL Error 4014 error is mainly caused due to the TCP/IP Chimney Offload. Disabling this feature can give you solution to the problem. With release of Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (SNP), few features were ..read more

SQL Server primary purpose is to archive, manipulate and retrieve data as per requested by other several software applications. These applications may run either on identical computers or on different systems connected via the Internet (or a network). To handle such large amount of data, which can also be lost or damaged due to some issue, there is a very common feature in SQL server i.e. AlwaysOn Availability groups. This feature aims to provide high-availability and disaster recovery solution, generally, providing an alternative to business-level users to backup their database. In addition ..read more

Transaction Logs are integral part of SQL Server Database. The blog discusses on how to shrink Transaction log file in SQL Server.MS SQL Transaction Log file is a continual record of all changes made to the database. Each database has minimum one transaction log file that is exclusive to that database. But sometimes transaction log file grow unexpectedly large and contains extra unused space that are of no use. In such situations, we need to shrink MS SQL Transaction Log File by doing some manual steps. Let’s move further to execute the MSSQL shrink log file task. Table of Contents Common U ..read more

SQL Server stores all its physical information in the master database whereas all its transactional information in the logs. In addition, the .mdf file stores all database objects like tables, schema, indexes etc. The log file plays an important role in SQL Server as transaction logs are important evidences in case if any transnational error occurs on the Server or if any intruder attacks on it using actions like SQL injection. Therefore, we are going to execute the command for learning how to retrieve data from log files in SQL Server for the purpose of reading SQL server transaction logs. H ..read more