A reliable and large database usage requirement urges companies to use SQL Server as their database engine. The companies looking for secure, multilevel access, easy integration with windows applications are preferred SQL Server Database. The MS SQL Server is the best option because it is specially designed for enterprise-level usage. It is still comes with new versions mean new addition of enterprise level requirements. If you are a Windows web hosting user, you will find it very best an easy changing option when you convert other rational database into SQL Database. Even if you are using some old version of SQL Server Database at another hosting provider, you can easily transfer all your existing data into other hosting provider easily. If you require Microsoft SQL Server, it is only available for the Windows platform. At arvixe you will find SQL Server 2012 for new hosting accounts while SQL Server 2008 R2 is also available with arvixe.

What should I look for in an SQL Server hosting plan?

This step show you the space usage by your SQL database and by its log file. This will show space size in MB.

Steps:-

1. Open Microsoft SQL Server Manager Studio to connect with SQL Database

2. Click on your database to select your database

3. Create new query

The SQL Log records transaction made into database. These log-entries can be used later to check the actions with database. It also used to ensure database integrity in the event of a system restore, includes but not limited to database queries, updating/insertion/deletion of the records. They are just like a temporary location where SQL Server engine temporary store transactions and at final commits the transaction to the database. To clear the disk space and clean the database log, we need to truncate/trim the database log frequently specially for a very active database. Many times the SQL log file grow very large and consume too much space over server. This might also cause to slow performance of a busy database. Here are steps to trim the SQL log remotely.