Comments on: Automated fix for SQL .ldf file growing out of control

By: Matthew Moeller

Matthew Moeller — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:09:09 +0000

You try changing SQL Server Compatibility mode to 80, not sure though.
Available Modes are:
60 = SQL Server 6.0
65 = SQL Server 6.5
70 = SQL Server 7.0
80 = SQL Server 2000
90 = SQL Server 2005
100 = SQL Server 2008

By: Krugi

Krugi — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:10:23 +0000

This approach does not work in SQL Server 2008. I get this message: "'TRUNCATE_ONLY' is not a recognized BACKUP option." Anyone who has a similar problem and found a way to shrink the file?

By: kelleigh

kelleigh — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:57:29 +0000

Thank you for this! It worked perfectly on an .ldf that's been giving me trouble for months!!

By: Harish

Harish — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:50:09 +0000

Hi my dbname.mdf file is large 48 GB!!!!, where as when i take a back up its
6GB...
I need to reduce my dbname.mdf
Can these steps work?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:53:31 +0000

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By: suzie

suzie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:26:07 +0000

Hi, Hope i'am not bothering you..I followed all the mentioned steps but it didn't work, nothing start running, even that i schedule them all.
do you have any idea what shall i do..if you want any details i can give you.

thanks a lot for your help!!

By: Matthew Moeller

Matthew Moeller — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:05:58 +0000

Yes the sql server agent must be running or the maintenance plan won't execute. And yes I would setup a schedule to run however often you need it to. We run it nightly on our high volume databases only.

By: suzie

suzie — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:19:26 +0000

thanks for your reply,
I did the maintenance plan and the job.
The sql server agent should be started? or it will start automatically, and shall we schedule the job or not.

By: Matthew Moeller

Matthew Moeller — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:38:33 +0000

Yep, it will reduce it to probably less than 3MB when done. Give it a shot. As usual run a full backup first just in case you made some wrong selections.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:44:35 +0000

Hi, We have this problem and the log file reach 27 GB, so if I apply the above steps the log file size will reduce in size?..

Thank you