You have a full backup of size 1GB. Create a database on the QA environment with the same logical file name as of the Production DB. Restore the database and...

Which version of SQL Server are you using?

If you are using SQL Server 2008, then you have the ability to trace the change easily.

Check in SQL Server logs and windows application log. I think you should get some info from there.

Is there any particular activity on the SQL Server when you get...

I think its normally databasename_log.ldf.

However, could you please be brief on that...

Nice work... but what was the error you are getting initially?:-)

I think the preferred way to deal with this situation is to create Custom roles for both the server and the databases.

However, I don't think, its a good practice to...

you can deploy in any sequence, depending on the version of SQL Server you are going to install.

If you are going to use the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, I...

I think you need to change your database recovery model to 'Bulk-logged', before you load the files using SSIS. This is use minimum amount of Transaction log space.Once the file...

You can also use the Evaluation Edition of SQL Server 2005/2008 for Free.

Microsoft is offering this evaluation copy for 180 days. I think within that period, you will learn how...

Could you please clarify your question: your database has grown from 42GB to 1.5GB????:w00t:

You can approach the following way:

1. Restore the backup to a new database, say TestDB.

2. Run a...

Sam,

You need to shrink the Transactional log file on requirement, mostly, when you are running out of space. However, it is adviceable that you should take a log backup before...

check which log files contains the maximum space, then perform a transactional log backup on that. Once the backup is complete, shrink the log file to some percentage, as per...

Use the scripts mentioned in the following Ms-KB246133: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246133/

Once you executed this script, you will able to copy logins from SQL server 2000 to SQL Server 2005.

Once you execute...

Run the DBCC shrinkdatabase command to shrink your database size. You can also use the DBCC shrinkfile option as well.However, as mentioned earlier, by the other respectable members, you should...

Its depends on the situation. Say, in an organization, a group of developers may use named instance to run multiple version of their application (like dev/test/prod environment).

Or may be you...