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however, i still do not understand the purpose of using truncate _only option. especially, because the action is written to the transaction log which i have no way of seeing, whereas, with no_log, at least the nt error log would have the entry of the action. also, no_log gives you a little more room.<br />
i would appreciate if care to reply.<br />
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thanx much.<br />
sajal.<br />

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however, i still do not understand the purpose of using truncate _only option. especially, because the action is written to the transaction log which i have no way of seeing, whereas, with no_log, at least the nt error log would have the entry of the action. also, no_log gives you a little more room.
i would appreciate if care to reply.

thanx much.
sajal.


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the no_log option does exactly what truncate_only option does except that the operation of dumping the transaction itself is not logged. what is the use of logging that operation, can it be rolled back, and how much space it would take anyway?? where is the information logged? the dumptrdate column in the sysdatabases table changes irrespective of the options provided with the dump transaction command.
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the no_log option does exactly what truncate_only option does except that the operation of dumping the transaction itself is not logged. what is the use of logging that operation, can it be rolled back, and how much space it would take anyway?? where is the information logged? the dumptrdate column in the sysdatabases table changes irrespective of the options provided with the dump transaction command.

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