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Posted - 2005-02-28 : 07:41:10
Ashish writes "Actually I am facing the problem I have database whose log file is about 6 GB I want to reduce the physical size of the log file how this can be done. I am already used the truncate option but this is not help to reduce the actual size of the file"

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Posted - 2005-02-28 : 14:47:11
What is your database recovery model set to? If FULL, are you performing regular tlog backups? If not, then switch to SIMPLE. After this is done, run DBCC SHRINKFILE to shrink the LDF.

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Posted - 2005-02-28 : 19:00:20
see
http://www.mindsdoor.net/SQLAdmin/TransactionLogFileGrows_1.html

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Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.
DTS can be used in a similar way.
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