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You can restrict the max size of the log file, but, first things first - what is the recovery model of the database? If it is FULL recovery, are you taking regular log backups?<br />
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If you are not taking log backups and the recovery model is FULL, that would explain an ever growing log file. Otherwise, the log file should get &quot;recycled&quot; as soon as you take the log backup.
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You can restrict the max size of the log file, but, first things first - what is the recovery model of the database? If it is FULL recovery, are you taking regular log backups?

If you are not taking log backups and the recovery model is FULL, that would explain an ever growing log file. Otherwise, the log file should get "recycled" as soon as you take the log backup.

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Ok Nakul,<br />
The backup mode was full, so how do I automate make the truncate only the log file or not needed after I changed it to simple ?
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Ok Nakul,
The backup mode was full, so how do I automate make the truncate only the log file or not needed after I changed it to simple ?

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Hi All,<br />
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I've got SQL Server 2012 Std database that is always running out of disk space.<br />
The culprit is that the Web proxy reporting software which is growing larger that 275 GB while the disk space in the Physical server D: drive ia only 279 GB maximum.<br />
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So I wonder how can I automate the SQL Server to truncate the SQL Database .LDF file to be always lower than 100 GB to maintain disk space size which is not impacting the Web reporting software.<br />
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Thanks,
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Hi All,

I've got SQL Server 2012 Std database that is always running out of disk space.
The culprit is that the Web proxy reporting software which is growing larger that 275 GB while the disk space in the Physical server D: drive ia only 279 GB maximum.

So I wonder how can I automate the SQL Server to truncate the SQL Database .LDF file to be always lower than 100 GB to maintain disk space size which is not impacting the Web reporting software.

Thanks,

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