Database Backups and Transaction Logs

Problem: Transaction log grew too big.
I took my database off line and then back online to ensure that no one was
connected to the database and then backed up the database.
I figured at this point I would be able to shrink the transaction log
because all of the 'pending' transactions would be clear - however I cannot.
Do I have to backup the transaction log? And in so doing will this solve my
problem?
Thanks
You must backup the log separately. Backing up the DB does NOT free up the
log. This is an online operation, so don't take the DB offline.
Tom
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
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"Stephen Costanzo" <sxcostanzo@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Problem: Transaction log grew too big.
I took my database off line and then back online to ensure that no one was
connected to the database and then backed up the database.
I figured at this point I would be able to shrink the transaction log
because all of the 'pending' transactions would be clear - however I cannot.
Do I have to backup the transaction log? And in so doing will this solve my
problem?
Thanks
|||Stephen,
Production database? If so, backup the transaction log then shrink the
transaction log file using DBCC SHRINKFILE statment.
HTH
Jerry
"Stephen Costanzo" <sxcostanzo@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Problem: Transaction log grew too big.
> I took my database off line and then back online to ensure that no one was
> connected to the database and then backed up the database.
> I figured at this point I would be able to shrink the transaction log
> because all of the 'pending' transactions would be clear - however I
> cannot.
> Do I have to backup the transaction log? And in so doing will this solve
> my
> problem?
> Thanks
>
>
|||Stephen,
Also see:
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=272318
HTH
Jerry
"Stephen Costanzo" <sxcostanzo@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Problem: Transaction log grew too big.
> I took my database off line and then back online to ensure that no one was
> connected to the database and then backed up the database.
> I figured at this point I would be able to shrink the transaction log
> because all of the 'pending' transactions would be clear - however I
> cannot.
> Do I have to backup the transaction log? And in so doing will this solve
> my
> problem?
> Thanks
>
>
|||ok in the process of backing up the transaction log.
After that, I will run that command and then restrict the file growth.
Apparently the dba (which I am not nor am I a sql server dba) didn't set up
that functionality as part of a job. I will add a nightly backup. We have to
copy the database off that server to another box because there isn't
sufficient drive space available to do a backup.
Thanks for the quick response.
"Jerry Spivey" <jspivey@.vestas-awt.com> wrote in message
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> Stephen,
> Production database? If so, backup the transaction log then shrink the
> transaction log file using DBCC SHRINKFILE statment.
> HTH
> Jerry
> "Stephen Costanzo" <sxcostanzo@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23CILEI2zFHA.3312@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
was
>
|||I suggest you read http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_dont_shrink.asp
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
"Stephen Costanzo" <sxcostanzo@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> ok in the process of backing up the transaction log.
> After that, I will run that command and then restrict the file growth.
> Apparently the dba (which I am not nor am I a sql server dba) didn't set up
> that functionality as part of a job. I will add a nightly backup. We have to
> copy the database off that server to another box because there isn't
> sufficient drive space available to do a backup.
> Thanks for the quick response.
> "Jerry Spivey" <jspivey@.vestas-awt.com> wrote in message
> news:%232Cn$L2zFHA.720@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> was
>