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How best to maintain SQL log file sizes

I'm somewhat of a new DBA and I'm managing a SQL Server 2012 instance that has a fair amount of activity. I'm running in Full Recovery mode because we need point in time recovery. Right now, I'm ...
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Is storing archive logs on local disk and backups on vendor storage possible?

I am using DB2 9.7. My LOGARCHMETH1 is set to VENDOR library. Example: LOGARCHMETH1=VENDOR:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbdb2.sl64 Is it possible to call the following backup command: db2 backup ...
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MySQL Point in Time Recovery For Just a Single Schema?

Is it possible to simply restore a single schema and bring it to a point in time (Say three hours ago) without bringing the entire database back? I can think of a lengthy method of backing up each ...
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Error 9001, Severity: 21, State: 1 The log for database 'DB_NAME' is not available

I have a SQL Server 2008 R2. I got a mail that the backup had failed, I opened the SQL log viewer and started browsing. And i found these two errors a bunch of times. error 1: Date ...
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SQL Server Transaction Log Initial Data Load

What is the standard process when initially populating a database with 5GB+ to avoid a large transaction log? From my understanding the log file would jump to a large size after the initial load and ...
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Why is my postmaster process (sometimes) becoming unmanageable after a WAL base restore?

TL;DR: Un-stoppable, unusable postmaster is being spawned when Postgres is started right after restoring its data directory from a WAL base backup. Why? Context: We run postgresql 8.4, on CentOS 6, ...
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Initial recovery Postgres with backup in sync commit mode

I've got a master and a slave postgres 9.1.3 database. I would like to init the backup database for the first time. I did the following steps: Stopped master Copied all files to Slave Create ...