Transaction Log File 210GB And Growing
Oct 12, 2007
I am running Microsoft SQL 2005 Express.
The transaction log of the main database has gotten huge and I just noticed it because the disk is nearly out of free disk space.
The database data file is 46MB and the transaction log is 210GB. This happended because autogrowth was on, and no limit was set I suppose.
So my goal is to knock this thing down to size, and set the max size of the transaction file to like 5GB.
I CANNOT do a backup of the transaction log because I do not have enough free space for such an operation. I tried doing:
DUMP TRANSACTION dbName
No luck, got the following error: Backup or restore requires at least one backup device.
Can I just stop the service and manually DELETE the transaction log file?
Thanks for the help.
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Oct 11, 2007
Hello, we are running Microsoft SQL 2005 Express edition (9.0.32).
Recently I just noticed that the database log file of our main database is HUGE. The database data file is only 50MB and the log file is 210GB.
Any idea what is causing this? Seems to be getting bigger with time, in the last 7 days seems to have grown by 100GB. I noticed the following settings under the database:
Autogrowth: By 15 percent, unrestricted growth
Does that seem right? Thanks.
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Aug 22, 2001
I upgraded from SQL 6.5 to SQL 7 last month, and so far, everything's
been going fine.
However, I'm not using my old SQL 6.5 backup scripts, which, when the
backup was done, would dump the transaction log with TRUNCATE_ONLY, shrinking
the log size.
My SQL 7 server is set up with a Maintenance Plan which does everything,
including backup, but the log file seems to be growing and growing. I'm
up to 4.5 gigs now, for a database with a data file of 3.5 gigs.
How do I "dump transaction with TRUNCATE_ONLY" on a SQL 7 database?
Thanks,
Todd Wallace
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Mar 28, 2000
I wonder if anyone could explain why when monitoring the transaction log size it doesn't appear to be growing! I'm using the following code to test image data types with logging.. I've got 'Truncate log on Checkpoint' switched off and 'Select into Bulk copy' also switched off.
Running the following code I would expect to see the transaction log grow and grow and grow... Monitoring it using perfmon indicates that it isn't in fact logging...
DECLARE @ptrval varbinary(16)
SELECT @ptrval = TEXTPTR(pr_info)
FROM pub_info pr INNER JOIN publishers p
ON p.pub_id = pr.pub_id
AND p.pub_name = 'New Moon Books'
declare @Loop int
select @Loop = 0
While @Loop <= 10000
BEGIN
WRITETEXT pub_info.pr_info @ptrval
with log
'New Moon Books (NMB) '
select @Loop = @Loop + 1
END
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Jan 24, 2003
Greetings,
My database has a situation where my transaction log is growing out of control. However I have not been able to figure out where any memory leaks are occuring.
Is there a way to monitor the database in order to find out at when the tlog is growing. Or even better, what sql is being executed that is causing this unreasonable tlog growth?
Thanks a million,
Roger
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Mar 6, 2007
Hi,
I'm getting this SQL server log...
The log file for database 'P5_Nextel' is full. Back up the transaction log for the database to free up some log space
What i'm doing is, i just resizing the space allocated, but the problem is my disk is now out of space. How can i prevent this kind of problem without adding a new disk? Is there any other way?
Please advise.
Thanks!
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Feb 29, 2008
I am having problems with the transaction log growing. I set up a maintenance plan to backup every 15 minutes. The recovery model is set to full. It is set to auto grow by 10 percent with unrestricted file growth. The space allocated is 2mb. Should this be set higher? It seems whenever I unchecked the auto shrink, the log is growing larger. The command I use to check is:
SELECT *
FROM sysfiles
WHERE name LIKE '%LOG%'
GO
This is the log size and the log space used.
1.492187538.02356
This has grown 4 percent since yesterday. Are there any good practices to maintain these log files?Any help would be appreciated.
msr976
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Aug 24, 2006
Hi,We have created a SQL server 2000 database. We observe that thetransaction log keeps growing over time. We are now about to run out ofspace. We have been periodically shrinking the database. Neverthelessthe size has increased. I would imagine that a transaction log can beeliminated if we stop the database. Can that be done? Is there a way tocompletely wipe off the transaction log?Thanks,Yash
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Mar 12, 2003
I have to admit, I'm usually using the MySql database, but in this particular case I have to use MSSQL 2000.
Over to my problem.
I'm building a web-based system (who isn't these days) in which the user types arbitrary information that is published when the user pushes the save button. Nothing new about that.
Here comes the tricky part, when the user wants to edit an existing item I copy all information in the database and sets the id of the 'edit-copy' to the negative value ( id 45 becomes id -45 for the edit-copy). This is also done on all items in other tables that is connected to the main item.
This way I get a copy that the user may edit without messing up the published information. When the user is done I either delete all the negative items (cancel) or delete the positive items and update the negative to become positive (save).
So far so good, allmost... my problem is that the transaction log grows tremendously.
Is there any other way to accomplish a safe edit that doesn't affect the transaction log as much as my current solution?
Could I be doing something wrong when updateing or deleteing my items?
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Jan 28, 2014
The transaction log of a database grows until it runs out of disk space. If disk space is full, all databases on instance may get problems. Because of this i have set a limitation on how much it may grow, up to 40 GB. It grows in steps of 100 MB. It reaches its limit a couple of times a week, causing the application to hang.
The database file itself is about 2,3 GB large.
The SQL version is 10.50.4276, SQL2008R2 SP2.
The recovery model is FULL.
I have a backupjob that runs a FULL Backup at midnight.And a backupjob that runs a LOG backup every 30 minutes.Both finishes with success. However, the transaction log is never truncated, the unused space is never released.
I have checked for "long running jobs", it sometimes sys "backup_log", sometimes "active_transaction".
Could a workaround be to set the recovery mode to simple, and create a full-backup job that runs every 30 minutes for this database? It is a critical database....
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Apr 30, 2007
Hi there,
We have a Principle, Mirror and Witness set-up and all is working fine, however, the transaction logs for a few large databases just keep growing over a the course of the month until the disk is full. As I understand it, and having tried you can't dump the transaction logs while mirroring is configured, is there any way at all to commit and truncate the logs while mirroring is running or do I have to manually remove the mirroring each month, dump the transaction logs and then re-enable it again after doing the backup/restore?
The databases in question are about 6GB in data size and the transaction logs can grow to be about 60GB in a month.
Would a normal SQL Server 2005 backup truncate the logs if I configured this? At the moment we use Litespeed for SQL server for nightly backups.
Any advice would be very helpful.
Thanks
Ed
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Jan 14, 2008
Hi.
I know this question has been posted before but after reading some other post I'm still a bit confuse of what to do?
In my database, I have a 3Mb data file and the transaction log file has growed to 500Mb and keep growing... Can you please advise what I should do to reduce it size and/or stop it from continue growing?
Thanks for your help.
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Aug 16, 2006
Hello,
What if there are uncommited transactions in the log and backing up the database/logs does not trunicate the log and it still grows?
Thanks
wade
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Nov 7, 2001
Hi there - I have an sms server which uses a sql 7 database. The transaction log on it keeps growing at an incredible rate (about 1gb p/w). The database was successfully backed up yesterday, and I thought that should delete the inactive entries in the log. Can someone tell me some steps to do reduce it to a regular size?
thanks for any help
Jonathan McCrea
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Oct 10, 2006
hi all,
my tlogs at the subscriber are growing very large
irregardless of my recovery mode. any help
using snapshot-push replication
thanks,
joey
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Dec 3, 2007
hi,
we have a SQL Server 2000 database which we set to 'SIMPLE' recovery mode at 6pm (due to nightly large data loads). We revert back to 'FULL' recovery mode at 6am.
My understanding was that in 'SIMPLE' recovery mode, the transaction log would not grow because it would automatically be truncated after a checkpoint. However this is not the case. I thought perhaps it could be due to a long running uncomitted transaction, but when I ran 'dbcc opentran', the oldest running transactions doesn't last for more than a couple minutes. I manually run a 'checkpoint' command as well in the hope of forcing the transaction log truncation. I repeat this a couple of times to no avail. When I run 'dbcc sqlperf(logspace)' , I can still see the transaction log growing.
It is not until I run 'backup log db with truncate_only' that the transaction log gets truncated.
I do not understand, why the transaction log does not get automatically truncated in SIMPLE recovery mode?
Andrew
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Apr 25, 2007
Hi,
We have configured the following in the Publisher server..
1) Merge Replication - Synchronisation to be running in the continuous mode.
2) Merge Replication - Synchronisation in Scheduled mode.
The issue that we are facing here is the transaction log file of the databases which are in replication are growing very largely. And we get this error message in the Subscriber :
Error messages:
The Merge Agent failed to retrieve article information for publication 'MCC_Pos_CashlessPub'. Increase the -QueryTimeOut parameter and restart the synchronization. When troubleshooting, use SQL Profiler or restart the agent with a higher value for -HistoryVerboseLevel and check the output log file for errors. Correct any database engine conditions that may be causing internal replication stored procedures to fail. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147201017)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147201017
The transaction log for database 'tempdb' is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 9002)
Get help: http://help/9002
In fact for the past two days there are no data movement or any changes to the table, still we are able to see the growth in the transaction log file.
As mentioned in the error description when checked the log_reuse_wait_desc column of the sys.databases table, it showed the value "LOG_BACKUP". So took database backup 3 times. and took transaction log backup 2 times from the subscriber server in which the error was thrown. Still the issue persists. There is no change in the transaction log size.
What is the reason behind the growth of LDF?? Is it because of Merge Replication Configured in the server??
Kindly check and let as know regarding this issue. We are facing lot of problems because of this issue. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Swapna.B.
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The TEMPDB transaction log file keeps growing.The database server is new and the transaction log was presized to 1 GB on installation. After installing a number of databases, the log file grew over a day to 38GB. Issuing a manual checkpoint was the only way to free some space to allow it to be shrunk back to a usable size. The usage of the file is still going up.
I am struggling to find what process is causing the log to be used so heavily. Looking at the log reuse wait desc for tempdb returns "Nothing" and tempdb itself isn't being used very much or growing in size.
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Aug 7, 2007
Why does a log (.ldf) file keep growing and growing and growing? Is this related to the fact that the scheduled Maintenance keeps failing due to exclusive access problems?
SQL Server 2000 Std.
Thanks!
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Nov 8, 2000
Hi,
my log files are growing like anything. One of my log file size is 20GB.
How i have to reduce the log file size.
If i run DBCC command is it come backs...
Pls tell me the way how i have to find the free space and reduce logsizes.
After taking backups also my log file sizes are not reducing.
Thanks!
Kavira
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May 16, 2006
I have a database of 22 gb in sql 2000, my database option is set to full recovery mode, the problem i'm having is the tran log is growing too fast, this morning it was 24 gb, more than the database size. Can anyone help how I can keep it in a managable size?
Thanks in advance!!
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Nov 15, 2004
Hi all
I have a DB with 1 data file, 1 log file and 1 index file.
data file is 3 GB but index file is 12 GB.
Index file is growing big day by day.
This cause performance of DB down.
What should I do to prevent index file become bigger and size of index file smaller?
Thanks in advanced
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Nov 8, 2012
My log file was 2x the size of my actual Database which is obviously too large on a DEV box. I know that my data can be easily recovered so I actually do not even want/need a log file.
After doing some investigation I found that I should turn my database into "Simple Recovery Mode" and after this I used a few scripts to truncate my log file. Things at this point looked great!
Unfortunately my log File is still growing even with this 'simple recovery mode'. So how do I stop this craziness from occurring?
I even unchecked the box 'allow autogrowth' on the database! However, I eventually get errors when creating records in the system because it complains about running out of room in the log file.
Code:
The transaction log for database 'ReportingDB' is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases
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Dear All,
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Hello,
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I have tried doing this:
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/lost_data_sql_server.asp
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Thanks in Advance.
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