Automatic Logfile Truncation
Apr 10, 2008Gurus,
Everyweek I am truncating the logfiles. I want to automate the truncate logfiles on every sunday. Anyone can help me to automate this process..
Thanks
-- Krishna
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Jun 27, 2007Hi,
I have a data file that has numeric data that looks like:
1.123456
And this column is defined as a DT_NUMERIC(18.6) in the flat file conn mgr.
As an experiment, I changed the destination column to a NUMERIC(18,0) - hoping that this would throw a truncation error at the flat file task level (where I have Truncation on all columns set to "fail component").
Not a peep. It loaded the data into the table, chopping off the 6 digits after the decimal point.
You would THINK that this would cause an error, but no. Why is this? The flat file task complains about all kinds of things, but this is such a gross error, you would think it would catch it!
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2004-05-12 09:44:49.17 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'
2004-05-12 09:44:49.36 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'
2004-05-12 09:44:49.56 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'
2004-05-12 09:44:53.37 spid79 Starting up database 'aa'
2004-05-12 10:02:41.96 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'.
2004-05-12 10:02:42.24 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'.
2004-05-12 10:02:43.61 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'.
2004-05-12 10:02:43.80 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'.
2004-05-12 10:02:44.02 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'.
2004-05-12 10:02:44.24 spid73 Starting up database 'aa'.
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I know that IF a database has only ONE log file associated with it, and this one log file gets lost, SQL Server will create on startup a new log file. But with multiple log files, it does not behave in this sympathic manner. Is there perhaps any way to recover (for example, an undocumented dbcc command or so) ?
I surely will appreciate any tip or suggestion !! Thanks!!!
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Jun 9, 2000How do I shrink my transaction log file ? The physical file are 10Gb in size but only contains 100Mb data so I want to shrink it to save diskspace. I tried DBCC SHRINKFILE command but the file dont shrink.
Any other methods to shrink a transaction log file ? Like backup/restore ?
Help !
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Jan 15, 2006Hello guys!
I would like to clear the logfile. Could anybody tell me how to do this?
What I would like most would be to run SQL-Server without any log-file (while development). But I suppose that this is not possible.
Regards,
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Feb 3, 2007Dear all,
I am using SAP with MSSQl 2005. My transaction logfile is full. I took backup of transaction logfile and it should be truncated and shrink after the backup, but it did nothing. There is no error but the file size remain same.
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Dec 18, 2000Hi, i am not familiar with MSSQL so maybe it's not as difficult to you as it is to me - in brief:
SQL version: Microsoft SQL Server 7.00 - 7.00.699 (Intel X86)
Errorlog shows:
Starting up database 'CH2'.
Opening file E:CH2DATA1CH2DATA1.mdf.
Opening file E:CH2DATA2CH2DATA2.ndf.
Opening file E:CH2DATA3CH2DATA3.ndf.
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Enterprise Manager
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Executing script:
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Shows errormessage "The database 'CH2' does not exist."
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What if i created a new db 'CH2' and then replaced the data files?
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