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AnbarasanK040678
Feb 23, 2024Copper Contributor
Best Practice for full backup and transaction log truncation
I am new to SQL Server DB. Could someone please let me know what would be the best practice to do a full backup and truncate the transaction log. If you could please let me know the strategy you are...
olafhelper
Feb 26, 2024Bronze Contributor
and truncate the transaction log.
AnbarasanK040678 , shrink log files isn't best, it's more worse practice. If the workload (transactions) need the space of log, then it needs it. Shrink log means a log file growth and that's an expensive I/O traffic.
Best pratice for backup? Do it.
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- AnbarasanK040678Feb 26, 2024Copper Contributor
olafhelper Thanks for your kind reply.