'transaction Log Backup' File Is Huge
May 19, 2007
Hello all,
I have inherited a SQL 2000 server, and am therefore an absolute beginner of SQL2000.
I know this has been covered before, but I don't know how to use the KB as I don't know how to run the commands/script.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272318/
I can no longer backup the SQL database because the 'transaction log backup' file is about 17GB. The SQL database is only about 2GB! The partition that it is backed up onto fills up every day.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Puskas
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Sep 25, 2004
One of my databases is approxiamtely 1.5 GB's but when I run a backup the backup file explodes to 38GB's.
What is the proper usage of Shrink Database, is this safe or is there another method to reduce the size?
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May 12, 2000
I am using SQL Server 7 and have about 5 databases. One of them has a data file of about 10 Meg, and most of the others are larger. I do a nightly backup to both a local and mapped drive. On both, the size of the backup file for this database is more than 500 Meg, but the rest appear to be an appropriate size. Does anyone know why this would be happening? The database works fine, it does not get a lot of insert/delete activity and I run DBCC every weekend. If anyone has any ideas I would sure like to hear from them.
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Nov 19, 2004
I just peeked at my DNN setup and I found that I have a transaction log about 98 gigs large, compared to a DNN database that is only about 250 megs. Crazy, huh?
Do you happen to know what I need that transaction log for? Can I just delete it or will it break my SQL db? Is there a way that I can keep only maybe a week of transactions in it so it doesn't grow so dang large?
Thanks in advance for your response!!
Tim x 4
(always learning!)
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Aug 10, 2000
One of my production databases is currently 51 mb. The transaction log is well over 5 gig. I have tried truncating and then shrinking the log through the use of SQL utilities. This does not work! How can I quickly resolve this problem without tampering with the production environment?
Thanks in advance.
Ray Reinders
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Sep 30, 2002
I am not a DBA and I run a personal web site that has gotten pretty large. I have never done anything to maintain my sql server, and now my transaction log is 10 Gigs and my data is only like 300 Megs. I am starting to get a memory leak with the sql service. What should I do? Is it bad to have a huge transaction log. I am not familiar with any of this stuff, so someone please point me in the right direction.
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Mar 19, 2007
How I can run a SQL Server Transaction Log Backup using a Windows CMD File. It's that posible? Anyone know the command or how do this?
We already have a application monitoring our SQL databases. Everytime the transaction log get full, it sends us an alert. Would be better if our application repair the problem itself, executing a command (Windows CMD File).
I'm not a expert using SQL databases or MS DOS Prompt commands.
Any help will be appreciate.
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Mar 19, 2008
Hi all our It Admin is having issues with the backups. He was doing full backups every 4 hours with backupExec, which means thats way too much. But now hes trying to do a simple recovery now, because obviously the transaction logs have not been truncated. Its a big mess, I'm not involved in this part, they handle the backing up and permissions. Transaction logs are huge??
Any suggestions??
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Oct 12, 2001
Recently I did an upgrade form SQL 7 to SQL 2000. Everything went smoothly
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May 13, 2008
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Oct 18, 2015
I want to append the column to the transaction table(60 million records in it.) ..
Our transaction table is being used in production.. but i have very less amount of time ..
Instead of alter table.. (IF we use the alter to take backup of table and do the processing it will take more time). Is there any way to append the column to the transaction table ..
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Dec 8, 2007
Hi there - can anyone advise on the following issue. We have recently performed some server side tracing on a particular SQL instance over 24hr period. We are now attempting to load these into a database for analysis. Here lies the problem.
When we are loading the profiler trace files (one at a time) into the database the transaction log is growing at an excessive rate. Even though the database is in SIMPLE mode.
We are loading the traces using the command:
INSERT INTO sqlTableToLoad
SELECT * FROM ::fn_trace_gettable('MytraceFileName', DEFAULT)
Can anyone advise how we could possibly get round this issue as we're running out of space due to the transaction log.
Thanks
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Oct 11, 2004
Hi all,
I found my database log file is 26GB and the database file is just about 280MB. We are doing full backup everyday. However, my sql server seems running very slow now and please advise:
1. How can I decrease/truncate my log file?
2. Would the huge size of the log file be the reasons slowing up my sql server?
3. Would anyone give me direction knowing more on the transaction log?
Thank you and appreciated!
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Oct 30, 2007
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I am very new to sql and dont even know where to go to enter commands, so youll have to bear with me here. I've read about truncating and shrinking and some other things, I am just worried and dont want to mess anything up. I know this is probably a simple task, but like I said, with the truncate command I was reading about, I dont even know where to go to type it in!!! If someone could please help it would be much appreciated. Thanks so much.
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I have a .bak file of 72gb. But my database size is only 32gb, I got this value from sp_spaceused?
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http://www.sqlserverstudy.com
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Nov 13, 2007
Hi
this is regarding SQL Sever 2000. ( it was upgraded form sql7). its log file is increasing in very high manner. say 40 gb, 50 gb and now 57 gb. Mdf file is around 15 mb. we created back up and tried to restore to another system. its asking 57 gb free space. how to proceeed with file recovery. we have backups but it askes more space for log file. how to retrieve the data.
rgds
Pramod
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We take a full backup in the early morning and hourly transaction log back during the working hours for one database in the production server. The application team made certain changes to the design of the said database in their development server. The backup from the development server was restored to the production server during working hours. After the restoration should we take a full backup before next transactional logbackup? Would the transactional log backup with out a full backup after the restoration of a database be valid?
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Help,
Have a user who needs many data changes to a huge table with over 2 million rows.
He hopes to do this by running a series of queries.
Last time our log grew gargantuan. I know 7.0 is wonderful & dynamic, but after
an hour of rambling through books online I'm more confused than ever.
Is there a way we can code into his query at intervals any hard coded checkpoints
or log backups? Do we need to dbcc shrinkfile the logfile?
Thanks,
Mark Blackburn
mark@mbari.org
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I have the next question, and i would like to hear what do you thinkabout, and if is there a better solution for "my problem"here is the question, I have a huge table with 60GB of data (imagefiles). The problem happen always when i try to ALTER the structure ofthe table. For example I change a field char(3) to char(4)...thesqlserver then performs the "alter table" command...that must besomething similar than "insert into the new table + drop the actualtable" and for that I need about 60GB o space for my LOG file, andtakes hours to complete the operation.Is this the only way to alter a single field in my table??I would like to heard you opinions...Thanks..ALberto
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Mar 11, 2008
Hello, everyone:
I just heard that for restore purpose, ths full backup and transaction log backup should be from one maintenance plan. Otherwise transaction log backup files cannot be restored after restoring full backup files.
Is it true? Can anyone offer official documents?
In my system, full and transaction backups are from one maintenance plan. Restores are doing fine. I am not sure that ideal is true or not.
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ZYT
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