Simple Recovery Model Database - Huge Log File

Nov 3, 2015

Have a database that's in "Simple" recovery mode whose .ldf has grown to 270GB.   This database is a data warehouse so "full" is not required.  I put it in simple mode a month ago and shrunk the log down and now it's filled up the disk. 

What steps can I take to mitigate this in future?  I've read that this is caused by long running transactions which fill the log for DR purposes.  Should I put the database back into full mode and backup/truncate daily.  

The auto-growth is set to 128MB which is very low. 

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Hello,



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In this Model, I know we can restore only to the last full backup or can use differential

Backup, if implemented as a part of backup.



But my point of confusion is about the backup of '.ldf' file, should those file should be backed up in the

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As I mention my database has Simple Recovery Model, but the size of log file is around 20GB,

Could not understand why as in this Model, normally it automatically truncate the Log file?



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thanks,




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