Reply to post: Re: Coincidentally...

Junior dev decides to clear space for brewing boss, doesn't know what 'LDF' is, sooo...

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Re: Coincidentally...

The reason is many SQL Server instances are misconfigured and never properly backed up. In other databases keeping the size of log files under control is easier - especially since you usually wanted to put them on very fast storage albeit usually snaller, especially for system doing a lot of transactions. But SQL Server was and is often used as a fire-and-forget databases, and issue start to arise later.

Once, years ago, I was called at a manufacturing plant far away because their SQL Server, where they wrote a lot of telemetry data coming of the manufacturing machines, was crawling to a halt. They thought it was some arcane issue that would have taken days to solve. Actually it was just a few bad DB design decisions and lack of proper maintenance - after a few hours spent putting it a a good and safe configuration it was fast again - and I'm quite sure the local acting DBA was later called for a word or two....

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