After experiencing weekly CDC failures caused by transaction log issues and logs suddenly chewing up disk space, I found myself repeatedly investigating the same questions: Why is the log so large?

Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

> **This article is focused on SQL Server**. For more specific information on this error in Azure SQL platforms, see [Troubleshooting transaction log errors with ...

First off, we of course restricted it's growth to not grow above its current size, but we'd still like to shrink it now.<P>We do a complete backup of the database every week, although we don't have a ...