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Does it shrink back down at all, or stay at the large size. Check to make sure that the backups are running correctly and that the transaction is truncated after the back runs successfully.<br />
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Good luck...
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Does it shrink back down at all, or stay at the large size. Check to make sure that the backups are running correctly and that the transaction is truncated after the back runs successfully.

Good luck...

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I will guess that it's the reindex job.<br />
Do you have regular transaction log backups set for the SharePoint database?
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I will guess that it's the reindex job.
Do you have regular transaction log backups set for the SharePoint database?

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Daily, but we don't retain very long.
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I turned off the indexing jobs and it still grew to a large state. &nbsp;I am going to monitor. &nbsp;I had to shrink it again. &nbsp;I will continue to monitor
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I turned off the indexing jobs and it still grew to a large state.  I am going to monitor.  I had to shrink it again.  I will continue to monitor

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Sharepoint 2013 on-site is what we are running. &nbsp;I have a transaction log that gets huge on over the weeken.d &nbsp;Sharepoint_config is the db. &nbsp; the database is in simple mode so i dont know why it is doing this. &nbsp;Does anyone know what jobs a normal sharepoint setup would run that would cause this datbase to get so large on the transaction file size?
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Sharepoint 2013 on-site is what we are running.  I have a transaction log that gets huge on over the weeken.d  Sharepoint_config is the db.   the database is in simple mode so i dont know why it is doing this.  Does anyone know what jobs a normal sharepoint setup would run that would cause this datbase to get so large on the transaction file size?

Sharepoint_config transaction database getting large

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