Hi Bev,

Have you treble-checked :-). I'm pretty sure one of those 399 rows must have a value of 2 (active). As soon as you create a database, some info gets written to its log file and one of the VLFs will be active.

USE master;

go

CREATE DATABASE NewTest;

USE NewTest;

go

DBCC LogInfo;

As for space resue - this does require a log backup if the database is in FULL recovery model, but not in SIMPLE.