Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

And thus you discover the inane mechanism that SQL Server inherited from Sybase, by which both try to do concurrency.

Guess what happens when a long running transaction marks the log near the end, and not too long afterward the log needs truncated?

If memory serves, ( hasn't worked too well lately :) the database will hang. It may just truncate back to the mark, and start from there, but you always have the possibility of another long transaction starting.

Can't remember the details, but what I do remember clearly is that it is a process that has to be closely watched, and I didn't particularly care for the way it worked.

Jared

On Wednesday 30 May 2001 11:41, Gary Weber wrote:
> Halo,
>
> Windoz 2000/SQL Server 2000
>
> Bringing an axuliary MS SQL db online. Trying to setup "archiving". Am I
> reading documentation right, SQL does NOT automatically archive transaction
> log? This process must be setup via backup routine, which truncates the log
> upon completion?
>
> Lemme try some logic:
>
> Oracle's redo logs = MS transaction log(s)
> Oracle's archived logs = ?
>
>
> Gary Weber
> Senior DBA
> Charles Jones, LLC
> 609-530-1144, ext 5529

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