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Transaction Log maintenance when switching to Simple Recovery

Background: I recently inherited 50+ SQL Servers with 450+ databases. The nightly backups are roughly 8TB and, needless to say, we're using more disk space than we'd like. All of the databases are ...
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SQL Server - contents of transaction log file in more detail

I have a question regarding transaction log (let’s just call it LDF for short) contents. I am assuming a database with full recovery model. I have read that LDF file contains (logs) each and every ...
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Does it make sense to use full recovery if the data and log files are on the same HD?

We have a database that was set up to use full recovery and my guess is that the reasoning was only to prevent data loss if a failure happened between backups. We make daily full backups of the ...
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Is it possible to recover day's worth of queries from sql server log file?

I lost all data entered and edited in my system yesterday, and my ISP has announced to me that last night's backup is corrupt and cannot be recovered. Is there any way to access the database's log ...
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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 ...
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Postgres synchronized backup - what's with the archive?

I am setting up a Postgres 9.1 master and a hot standby-server. I read the documentation but I'm not quite sure yet what I should do with my WAL files. Every commit is done on both servers before ...