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SQL Server 2008 Transaction Log - Reduce Size

Asked by Wizard_IT in MS SQL Server, SQL Server 2008

Tags: microsoft, sql server, 2008

I have a database called "technical support"
This has a log file called "TechnicalSupport2K_log"
The database is around 250MB but the log file is 6.5GB
Each night I run a backup command to overwrite the backup file as follows (5 routines for Mon - Fri)

BACKUP DATABASE [Technical Support] TO  DISK = N'E:\DATA-SQL\WIZARDSQL\Backup\tsmonday.sql' WITH NOFORMAT, INIT,  NAME = N'Technical Support_backup_2008_08_22_095437_5682842', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10

Each Night I run a Main Plan that checks everything except the backup sections

Each Saturday I want to clear down the log files
I have tried a few different versions from SQL 2000 posts and so on but each appears to fail in 2008

The first part of my Saturday routine is

BACKUP LOG [Technical Support] TO  DISK = N'E:\DATA-SQL\WIZARDSQL\Backup\tslog.sql' WITH NOFORMAT, INIT,  NAME = N'Technical Support_backup_2008_08_22_095658_9234183', SKIP, REWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10

Then I want to clear down the log files
The latest attempt I have is

use "technical support"
go
dump transaction "Technical Support" with no_log
go
DBCC SHRINKFILE ('TechnicalSupport2K_log', 100)
GO

Can someone please let me know where I am going wrong and rite the correct code to clear down my log files

Thanks in advance
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