When Socrates reportedly said the “unexamined life is not worth living,” the Greek philosopher didn’t imagine the modern internet with its seemingly unlimited ability to absorb data. Every mouse click ...

Todd Persen is the CEO/Co-Founder of Era Software. He was previously CTO/Co-Founder at InfluxData, creators of the InfluxDB database. The dream of object storage has long been to have a low-cost, ...

A publicly available database belonging to VOIPO which was not properly secured has exposed everything from call logs to internal system credentials to the public. This month, Director of Trust & ...

I have visions of regularly dumping and clearing Windows event logs and storing them in the medium-long term in a SQL database.<BR><BR>Why? So I can query them -<BR>"Show me all previous occurances of ...

Transaction logs in Exchange Server are very important. These are not just logs of what happens, transaction logs act as a buffer between the database and the users. Data is temporary kept in ...

There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t hear or read about an organization seeing ginormous transaction log (.ldf) files, while the associated data (.mdf) file is at the size it should be when ...

Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

What do you do when you can't avoid huge transaction logs in SharePoint and your files are too large? Last month, I wrote about how to avoid having ginormous transaction logs within SharePoint ...

Please post your solution. It'd be nice to be able to get the info out in a comma-delimited format or something readable by more that SQL.