Hi,
A quick question we have are server running a SQL2008 DB for a third party soloution and they dont support SQL managment studio the log files grows to a massive size and takes all the HD space from there hosted server.
We plan to shrink the log files if over a certain size but i would like to know the best practice/solution for this
The server is backed up every day by a full windows backup built in, the recovery mode of the DB is simple at the moment.
My question is if we leave it on simple and for example we need to restore the SQL DB can we recovery them off the daily backup run everynight and replace the files or do we have to do a independent full SQL backup with a recovery mode of full recovery and use these for the restores.
Thanks in advance DDS