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Painless management of a logging table in SQL Server

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Tables that log a record of what happens in an application can get very large, easpecially if they're growing by half a billion rows a day. You'll very soon need to devise a scheduled routine to remove old records, but the DELETE statement just isn't a realistic option with that volume of data. Hugo Kornelis explains a pain-free technique for SQL Server.

2013-06-25

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Logging with SQL Server

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This article from Ed Swiedler looks at using SQL Server to log activity from various sources. Service Broker and Windows Services are used to create a generic logging service that will build log files for you to examine outside of any application.

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2010-01-06

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