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Shrinking log file

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aatishpatel
Starting Member

8 Posts

Posted - 2014-01-30 : 11:42:46

In SQL Server 2008 R2 can someone please tell me how to shrink log file and also the data file.
. I have Log shipping going on so really don't want to break the log chain.
I know shrinking is not good but i really need this right now to free up some space and this is a dev environemnt so shrinking doesn't matter.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2014-01-30 : 12:37:47

DBCC SHRINKFILE, just don't truncate the log.

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

aatishpatel
Starting Member

8 Posts

Posted - 2014-01-30 : 13:10:12

Can you please give me the exact script to shrink log file without breaking logshiping chain?

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2014-01-30 : 13:45:52

See A and B examples: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189493.aspx

Depending upon how much you need to shrink, you may need to do it in increments of say 200MB at a time.

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

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