I'd get frantic phone calls from the programmers...
in the version of Sybase we were using (4.something), truncate actually
archived off the log info. But it needed to write to the log. If the log was
full, I had to trash it and then pray that nothing went wrong before I could
get a full backup done.
>From: Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?
>Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:02:48 -0800
>
>
>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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