Knowledge Base » Microsoft SQL Server http://kb.philross.co.uk Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:07:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Truncating SQL Server Log Files http://kb.philross.co.uk/2007/09/10/truncating-sql-server-log-files/ http://kb.philross.co.uk/2007/09/10/truncating-sql-server-log-files/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:33:29 +0000 Phil http://kb.philross.co.uk/2007/09/10/truncating-sql-server-log-files/ SQL Server logs in a circular fashion to its transaction log files. To shrink a transaction log file it is first necessary to backup the log.

The following script backs the log up, throwing away the backup in the process and then shrinks the files in the database. Make sure you have a full backup of the database before running.

declare @db varchar(50)
set @db = DB_NAME()

backup log @db with truncate_only
dbcc shrinkdatabase (@db, truncateonly)

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