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maechismo_8514

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:07 PM

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Tom Walters

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:13 PM

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Krishna - Good article. Question though. What if the logfile expanded to fill the rest of the drive. Then what?

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Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:40 PM

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What about shrinking the database with replication???

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Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:28 AM

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Hi Krishna

Very clear article, but I was a bit confused about the first option of shrinking the log - if it is full now, won't shrinkign the physical size mean it is still full afterwards?

John

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Tom Walters (3/17/2009)

Krishna - Good article. Question though. What if the logfile expanded to fill the rest of the drive. Then what?

hi Tom,

Thanks for your feedback. if the log file filled the rest of the drive you can think of any one of the steps mentioned in the article.

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jts_2003 (3/18/2009)

Hi Krishna

Very clear article, but I was a bit confused about the first option of shrinking the log - if it is full now, won't shrinkign the physical size mean it is still full afterwards?

John

Hello John,

Thanks for your valuable feedback. When you shrink the log file it removes the inactive VLF's to reuse the space made available.

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Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:58 AM

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I cannot believe that backup was the third option. The first and best option is to create proper maintenance on the database. The only transactions you need are those occuring since the last backup. This keeps the back the logs small.

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michael_sawyer (3/18/2009)

Hi michael,

I have pointed out options of what we can do, the preference does not go according to the options mentioned. It totally depends on what you can chose as the best method. Obviously, at the first point if we have a good backup plan, frequent transaction logs, we would definitely not land on this kind of situation.

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Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:36 AM

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Hi Krisha,

in order to shrink the logfile you recommend the command:
"DBCC SHRINKFILE (transactionloglogicalfilename, TRUNCATEONLY)"

But BOL for DBCC SHRINKFILE states that:
"TRUNCATEONLY is applicable only to data files."

Would you please comment on that.

Thanks
Harald

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Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:25 AM

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Here is my take on it. (in sql2005, production with recover full mode)

DBCC LOGINFO('mydatabasename')

see the status column, you can only shrink the "0" rows after the last 2 or what. Because that was what is "free". (The worse case will be something like replication has a lockup and then the transaction log can't recycle and it will fill to the end)
If your log hard drive is full. you should buy time and add an extra log file in the other HD.

do a
checkpoint
(that force transactions to write)
backup your db
change recover mode to simple that basically free up the log. (not the size)

Then you can detach the extra log file, shrink the size. turn back to Full mode.

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