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My TLOG is taking up all 200 GB of the TLOG drive. I did a full backup, then 5 tlog backups, then WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY, and still I am not able to shrink this log. I tried sp_spaceused with @updateusage = TRUE, and I still show -200000 MB for the free space in the log.<br />
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I am backing up the TLOG every 15 minutes, however I only have 7MB of free space left. No transactional replication, no mirroring, just a standard 2005 cluster.<br />
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Please help....
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My TLOG is taking up all 200 GB of the TLOG drive. I did a full backup, then 5 tlog backups, then WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY, and still I am not able to shrink this log. I tried sp_spaceused with @updateusage = TRUE, and I still show -200000 MB for the free space in the log.

I am backing up the TLOG every 15 minutes, however I only have 7MB of free space left. No transactional replication, no mirroring, just a standard 2005 cluster.

Please help....

how to shrink a TLOG in SQL server 2005 when it shows negative free space?

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