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Matt

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Oct 30, 2001, 1:45:12 PM10/30/01
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Does anyone know what to do to shrink or Truncate a huge
(1.4 Gig) transaction log file. Everything I have tried so
far has not worked. I tried to shrink it, truncate it,
back it up. Nothing.

Andrew J. Kelly

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Oct 31, 2001, 7:46:22 AM10/31/01
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http://www.mssqlserver.com/faq/logs-shrinklog.asp Shrink File
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q256/6/50.asp Shrink Log
7.0 KB
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q272/3/18.ASP Shrink Log
2000 KB

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Andrew Mc Vay

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Oct 31, 2001, 9:36:33 AM10/31/01
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Try this..

BACKUP LOG <database name> WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY

GO

DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (<database name>, TRUNCATEONLY)


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