paul.knibbs (11/9/2010)
He didn't use TRUNCATE_ONLY as part of a BACKUP command, he used it in a DBCC SHRINKFILE--I can't find any mention that using it in that way is deprecated.
It's not deprecated.
It is, however, only applicable to data files, not to log files.
Gail Shaw
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