I have a database that the transaction log grows about 1 GB per day. I would like this size was decreased daily. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Some friends told me that after the Full backup that is done daily, I should perform a backup of transanction log with option to truncate and after, make a shrink in the database. That is exactly what should be done?
Thank you,
Best Regards,
Ralph Haddad
Dear all,
I wanna ask you how to decrease log file size..?
For example i have database file with data file size is 122,166 Kb
and the database log file is 6,330,176 KB
Thanks,
Oko Sakti Banget
Hello Guys,
Just wondering if someone can help me decrease the size of mdf and ldf files. In the past production database "NewUniverse" had been allocated space of 100 GB for mdf file and 8 GB of ldf file. However the data file has only used 30 GB of data. But now due to disk space related reason, I tried to decrease the datafile size from 100 GB to 40 GB. But I am not able to do it.
Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
Hi
I installed " Web Wiz Forum ASP SQL 2000 DB "
it work fine but
when i added some data in the forum for example my db size is 1.45 MB
after i delete those data the db size will not decrease
is there any code that i must enter on the sql server setup file
Excuse me i asked this question in the web wix forum site but they don`t
answer me
if know what i must to do plz tell me
Thanks
Hi all,
How to derease the database file size in Primary filegroup.
Thanks,
Hi,
My DB size (Right click on DB Name, Data Files tab, Space Allocated field) was 10914 MB.
I delete a huge table (1.2 million records * 15 columns).
I checked the db size again. It didnt change.
Shouldn't it decrease because I delete a huge table ??
I have a database consisting of two main tables and 12 sub tables.
This was leading to increase in database size. So we thought of storing the sub tables data in the main tables in form of xml in a column of varchar(2000) type.
So we created a new database that only had 2 tables and we stored the data of the sub tables in the new column of the main table.
Surprisingly we saw that the database size increased rather than decreasing .
Hello -
I have a database server with over 300 databases. I want that MS-SQL Server should daily report me the sizes of SQL databases along with Transaction log files by sending me an email on my address.
How can I do that. Does someone have any script which can help me to do that.
Any help will be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Rubal Jain
For a few days now I have a discussion with a colleague about shrinking the transaction log as a daily maintenance job on an OLTP database. The problem is I cant figure out a way to convince her she is doing something really wrong. Its not the first discussion.. Maintenance Plans.
She implemented this "solution" with a lot of customers as a solution against VLFs fragmentation and huge transaction log sizes. My thoughts about doing this is very clear and I have used the following arguments without success to convince her:
- To solve too many VLFs you have to focus on the actual size of the transaction log and the autogrowth settings in combination with regularly transaction log backups. Check the biggest transaction and modify the transaction log size based on this. Not use shrinking as a solution for solving many VLFs.
- Shrinking the transaction log file on a daily basis that is disk I/O intensive. When the transaction log file is too small for new transactions, the transaction log needs to grow and this will cause disk I/O, this can cause performance problems.
- It looks unprofessional.
These steps are used every morning at 6:00 AM and a transaction log backup is made every 30 minutes.
Step 1
DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'' , 0, TRUNCATEONLY);
go
Step 2
ALTER DATABASE
MODIFY FILE (NAME = N'', SIZE = 4098MB);
GO
My main purpose is making sure the customers have the best possible configuration and I cant accept this is being implemented. Are there any more arguments available for this issue?
We have 9 shop installed POS system and how to get the 10 shop of daily sales transaction by use of different shop IP Address? I don't want to repeat typing 9 time for change IP address as well.
select * from xsoheader inner join
xsodetail.memonum = xsoheader.memonum where xshopcode='%00*'
Hello!
We have unusual situation. We increased the size of transaction log up to 100MB.
After we run the transaction log backup the physical size of transaction log file getting smaller and smaller from 100 to 88 and then to 76 and so on.
Do you now the reason?
Thank you,
Natalia
I have a very serious problem, if somebody can help me quickly. my transaction log file is getting bigger and bigger even after truncating. today morning when i checked, it was 1.5 GB, by evening it has gone upto 3GB, the total size of the database is 3.4 GB, out of which 3GB is Transaction log. why is it growing heavily!!!!!!!!. there is not much transaction happening. even after truncating the transaction log it is still showing 3gb.
help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I currently have an database that is 110 mb and grows on an average of 5mb a week. THe enviornment is IIS 5.0 /ASP /SQL 6.5. However I find myself continously increasing the log file since it frequently fills up. At this point it is 300mb and can be filled in less than an hour with an average of 35 users. I realize that this file has alot of overhead and is affected directly by the application making the updates. Last week on a busy day (time card app) I witnessed the log increase from below 75% to 100% in a minute, forcing me to truncate the log. This application is an administrative nightmare! Any ideas what could cause this type of activity in the trans log.
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We have here a small database (around 400 MB) with simple recovery. Also autogrowth is active.
But why does the transactionlog also sized up, when it is not in use?
Our TL is around 100 MB and filled with 5 MB.
Everytime the DB gets bigger, the TL also....
This isin continuation with my previous query. If i cannot reduce th T Log size , how can i stop it from increasing further. Can i make secondary log files which can be deleted later on?
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I need to create a script that would return the size of transaction logs for all databases. I ran a select statement against the sysfiles table but you can only run it against one db at a time. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Hello dear friends,
In my database i am not able to take the backup of transaction log.
Even if i took the back up and then shrunk the file it doesnt make any change to my transaction log size.
Still the size is same.
So in every two weeks i am restarting my server.
Once it is restarted then it is ok for another 2 weeks.
After 2 weeks my transaction log size will be more than the size of my datafile.
Can you suggest your openion.
No replication or log shipping exist.
Thank you
Hi All,
I need to create a script that would return the size of transaction logs for all databases. I ran a select statement against the sysfiles table but you can only run it against one db at a time. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Hello, everyone:
I am deisgning the transaction log file, and having the rough idea for transaction numbers per hour. How to determine each transaction size?
Thanks a lot.
ZYT
I have written an application which runs as a windows service. The application constantly requires to write data into the database.. pretty much every seond. Some of the tables have more than 800,000 rows.
the application works fine. Hoever I am noticing the transaction log grows very fast. All information added is handled through stored procedures. In one week the transaction log grew to 2GB. I assume a part of the reason was because I ran out of disk spae once. But generally this transaction log is growing fast. What could cause the transaction logs to grow fast, What could I do to keep the log file size down....I cant have the database down as the application needs to be running constantly.
I have a database whose recovery mode is FULL. I setup one maintenace plan do a backup for the database and another backup plan which backup the transaction log. The two maintenace plans runs daily.
However, the log file is still growing to a very large size. Should the log file be able to reuse after each backup of the transaction log ?
If I'd like to keep the database recovery mode as "FULL", what do I have to do to keep the transaction log within a reasonable size.
How the size of transaction file is calculated. are there any standards.
I created my database with 2000 mb data filesize and 200 log file size.
now my datafile size has reach to 11000 mb but log file size is still 200.
Therefore when I take the online backup my logsize totally consumed and I have to cancel my backup.
Please reply ASAP.
regards
Sanjeev Lamba
If I have a transaction log in a database of size 1GB ( space allocated is during creation of database) currently only 300 mb of its space is used i.e. nearly 700 mb is free. If I want to reduce physical file size of transaction log by 200 mb and release it for operating system then How can I do it???
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I'm sure this question has been asked before but I need clarification on a couple of points.
I have a database (500 Mb) which is having a full backup every night at 2AM. I am doing a transaction log backup every 2 hours between 7AM and 7PM. I have noticed that the transaction log keeps growing bigger and bigger so I do a manual truncate.
- Will my transaction log keep growing bigger and bigger ?
- How can I automate a task to reduce the log size ?
- Does a full backup not truncate the log ?
Thanks for any advice,
Tim
I created a database and had its file size as automatic grow. Now the database file is of 17 MB and its transaction log file size is 230 MB. After checking transaction log file properties I came to that it is using 13 mb only and the rest of the 230 MB i.e 217 MB is free. I want that area in the transaction log to be freed and get the transaction file size to its actual size. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
P.S: It is very urgent.
My database's transaction log has become 1.7 GB. Can I reduce it's size? I have tried to shrink database and also set truncate on checkpoint option and also taken the backup after that. but nothing helps. Please advice.
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A very quick (and probably simple to answer) question.
I have a database for which I used Enterprise Manager to set up a complete backup at 2AM every day and a transaction log backup every 2 hours between 8AM and 8PM.
I have noticed that the transaction log is growing huge but I thought that it is supposed to get truncated every complete database backup !!
What can I do to "manage" the log file size ? (preferably automatic task)
Thanks,
TIm
Hi !
How can I find or calculate the exact space occupied by the database and transaction log in the hard disk?
Praveena
i am new to sql server. i recently found the transaction log size of my database has reached 109 MB. how can i reduce it. a transaction log backup was sceduled daily at 12.00 noon nad full backup monthly.
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How do you reduce the file size of the transaction log? Is it safe to delete the transaction log? I tried clicking on the ellipse (...) box in database properties, but even tho i'm the dba, it says i don't have permissions to do that! I see the "automatically grow transaction log" and "maximum file size for transaction log" dialogs, but our transaction log is already 5.5 GB, and we need for it to be WAY smaller! Is there a way to back it up, then start over with a new one or something?
DB data file size: 200GB
giant table A: 100GB
Sometimes we've had to do ALTER TABLE statements on giant table A such as converting from int to float that ballooned to using 200+ GB of transaction log to make a copy of the table with the new field type, copy the data in, rename and delete all in a transaction. So we ended up with a 250 GB log file that sits around being 98% empty most of the time as we do log file backups every 3 hours. This seems like a waste of SAN space, however there are times when we do need to do a conversion and we need the space available so it stays. Using a local hard drive for extra log space I would think would severely slow down the conversion. So how do most people handle this. Perhaps have a temp drive tray plugged in just for conversions shared by the data center? Any other suggestions?
I'm thinking we really only need the log file to be big enough to do all the index maintenance day to day and only grow it large when we know downtime and a conversion will be going on. Growing a log file to 250GB is time consuming in itself. No instant initialization of log files in SQL 2005.
Hi,
Currently my db size is only 6 GB but the transaction log file initial size was set to 20 GB and has grown much way beyond the db size with the autogrowth feature turn on. The database was originally a test/development DB and was migrated to a production server including the log file. This probably caused the accumulation of transactions on the log.
We run backup everyday and tried to shrinkfile and file size did not change.
Can I change the "initial size" setting of the transaction log without causing any problems? Do I need to stop the service before I made the change assuming I made the change after the backup run? Or can I change it on the fly?
Thanks in advance.
I have a MS SQL 2000 dB that is 3GB, the transaction log is about 2GB.I do a full dB backup every night. My question is, shouldn't thetransaction log shrink down to next to nothing after a full dB backup?D.p8oust7eh+
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