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Not really in my opinion however to keep the t-logs from growing you need to perform regular backups in order for the space to be recycled/made available for use.
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Not really in my opinion however to keep the t-logs from growing you need to perform regular backups in order for the space to be recycled/made available for use.

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How to do the t-logs rotation?<br />
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do i need manually backup and delete them?
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How to do the t-logs rotation?

do i need manually backup and delete them?

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I have a WSUS server with the database size of 2.9 GB and log .ldf size of 757 MB. <br />
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Do I need trunk it to smaller size?<br />
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thanks.<br />
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I have a WSUS server with the database size of 2.9 GB and log .ldf size of 757 MB. 

Do I need trunk it to smaller size?

thanks.

how to trunk WSUS server database size

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