Occasionally I’ve come across a site where backups are taken to disk = ‘NUL’. Note that’s NUL with 1 L and not NULL with 2 L’s. I’ve seen it recommended in a few places online as a quick fix where a log file has grown out of control and at least one SQL backup utility actively uses it under the guide of ‘truncating the transaction log’.
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NSSUG – Session 1: Paul Randal on Wait Stats
Thanks to all those who made it to our first user group meeting tonight. Paul Randal gave a great session on the Waits and Queues Troubleshooting methodology and we had some really good discussion.
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