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You need to trancate your logs.<br />
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This will truncate the transaction log for you:<br />
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DBCC SHRINKFILE(&lt;TransactionLog<wbr />Name&gt;, 1)<br />
BACKUP LOG &lt;DatabaseName&gt; WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY<br />
DBCC SHRINKFILE(&lt;TransactionLog<wbr />Name&gt;, 1) <br />

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You need to trancate your logs.

This will truncate the transaction log for you:

DBCC SHRINKFILE(<TransactionLogName>, 1)
BACKUP LOG <DatabaseName> WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
DBCC SHRINKFILE(<TransactionLogName>, 1)


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Ok,<br />
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I have quite a few Transaction logs which are very large 5-6 Gig. I have just setup my transaction log to backup under the general maintence plan we have setup. Is that going to reduce the file size of those logs, or is there something else I need to do to get these things down to a manageable level.<br />
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Ok,

I have quite a few Transaction logs which are very large 5-6 Gig. I have just setup my transaction log to backup under the general maintence plan we have setup. Is that going to reduce the file size of those logs, or is there something else I need to do to get these things down to a manageable level.



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