Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

Transaction logs are a vital yet often overlooked component of database architecture. They are often forgotten because they are not something actively maintained like the schema contained within a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The SQL specification defines four transaction isolation levels, although a fifth transaction ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...