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Growing Transaction Log Programatically

  • June 15, 2004 at 7:28 pm

    #162038

    Can I grow the transaction Log using a script?

    My scenario:

    I have 3 different scripts that need to run on this particular database, 2 of them only need 4gb of TL space, so I set the transaction log to automatically grow by 4096, which works well, but the other script requires 24Gb, and it spends a lot of time growing the file while executing the script. I want to be able to grow the file to 24Gb before the script executes and then shrink it afterwards.

    Thank you,

    Ryk

  • June 18, 2004 at 8:53 am

    #511056

    My best guess (but not tested):

    -- Before batch

    use master

    go

    alter database foo_db

    modify file (name=foo_db_log,

    size=24 GB)

    go

    -- After batch

    use foo_db

    go

    dbcc shrinkfile (foo_db_log, 4000) -- Shrinking to 4 GB

    go

  • June 20, 2004 at 4:21 pm

    #511168

    Thank you, yes that is what I ended up using.

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