Log File Is Too Large
May 28, 2008
I administer an application that runs on SQL 2000, without being an SQL expert myself. I have observed that if I create a maintenance plan then the log file gets trimmed, but otherwise the log file keeps growing. All was going well at one site, but recently the log file has become huge. The server is also running out of disk space. Is that the problem? I'm not sure how to control this. Can I delete a log and then it will re-create? Two smaller databases share the same maintenance plan and these logs are small. Thank you.
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Mar 25, 2008
I have a test db in SQL Server Express 2005 with a 65MB dat file and a 1.1GB log file!! The production db has a slightly larger dat file and only a 6MB log file. I haven't updated by test db from the production db in a couple of months.
I tried Shrink Database and Shrink File in the Management Studio Express, but the log file size hasn't changed.
How did the log file get so large and how do I fix it?
Thanks for any help.
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Dec 25, 2006
I have a database which is having a small log file and a huge mdf file which around 3gb, i tried to shrink through the enterprise manager options but no luck. Even through taskpad i find the table sizes are less than 1 gb , kindly help me in solving this problem
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Oct 1, 2007
Admin is kind of new to me. Could someone recommend how to reduce these file sizes?
In Dev, my MDF is 16 MB, LDF .5 MB.
I run a script to recreate the schema and insert rows on the Host.
When downloading a db backup from the Host and restoring it to Dev, my MDF is 24 MB, LDF 25 MB.
The same dataset grew by ~35 MB!!!
Any advice is welcome. Thank you. Rick
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An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "File c:docume~1sortizlocals~1 emp 0003589001o.tmp is too large.".
I use a select statement to join to large foxpro tables. The data contains over a million records.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Aug 10, 2006
Hi to all
My database's log file is getting very large in a few days. There are only 2 users and they do not do a lot of work. But it gets larger and larger every day.
Autogrow is enabled. File Growth is 'in percent' and Maximum file Size 'Restricted File Growth-500MB'
Is there a way to stop the log file growing huge?
Thank you
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Feb 11, 2015
My log file size is of 5 GB, I just wanna reduce this to some extent without adopting shrinking method. So is there any way to do the same ?
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Hi,
I have a problem where I want to import a 1.6 GB XML file with SSIS into a SQL Server database. My hunch is that SSIS is not very good with handling such large amount of XML data. My test shows that SSIS tries to read all of the file into memory.
Does anyone know if there is any solution of solving this memory problem. My problem is that I want to take this source XML file import it into a database, make some transformations on it (eliminate duplicates etc) then produce a NEW XML file as output in a different XSD-format.
Is really SSIS the right tool for this operation?
The source XML file also have mixed content on Complex Types which seems to be a problem for SSIS as well.
Best regs,
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1) When I export this report to Excel, the result is 14.2MB file. Why is this file so huge, and how can I make it smaller?
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When we do a full backup the .bak file is 700MB but in the meanwhile our differential backup has grown to a size of 20GB. The backup set expires in 1 day and if the backup file already exists we "append" to it.
What we basically want is a differential backup for one day only. I realize that in SQL Server 2005 you could add a "Clean up" task but that is to delete files but because we only have 1 .bak file for the differential backup this is not an option.
If we set to overwrite the backup file if it already exists what does this mean? Assume that we run a differential backup every hour, does this mean that the differential backup file will be overwritten every hour?
How can we make sure that we have a differential backup every hour and keep only the differential backups for the last 24 hours?
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Oct 12, 2002
Gurus,
I have inherited a SQL 2000 database ( (I am new to SQL DBA) and I found this when I was checking the db properites . The transaction log has grown bigger than the actual data file, I thought transaction log backups would truncate the inactive portion of the log file and shrink the transaction log, but it was not the case it seems, may be it was truncating the inactive portion of the log, but not shrinking it. This site does not have a job for truncating the data/log files periodically. What is the best method to deal this situation, how can I shrink the Transaction log quickly?,
All your suggestions are welcome.
TIA,
-Jay
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May 8, 2007
We have recently added a new file group and file on a new drive. We have tested it by moving a small table to the new file group. We would like to relocate a new table to this file group but the table is about (we estimate) 75GB. My question is this: How long can we expect the transfer of data from the current file group to the new one for this table? I understand that depending on our hardware the answer may vary but does anyone have a rough estimate?
The current current (primary) file is located on a DELL SAN and the new secondary group is on a EMC 4700 both are connected via fiber channel.
Also a bonus question would be: Does a "normal" database backup created as a maintenance plan backup the seconary data as well into the BAK file?
Like I said a rough estimate is fine.
Many thanks,
Scott
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Aug 12, 2006
Hi everybody,
On executing the RESTORE command of SQL Server to restore from a backup of 78.3 MB, the "Server Application Unavailable" error message comes up.The error message in the Application log is as follows:aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 2184) was recycled because memory consumption exceeded the 152 MB (60 percent of available RAM).
However using Query Analyser of SQL Server I am able to restore the database.
What is the solution to this problem?
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Apr 20, 2007
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Jul 16, 2007
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A second option that I haven't explored yet, is to write the data into a table as VARBINARY(MAX). I would read the data using SUBSTRING with appropriate offset and length. Performance of SQL write/read of binary data of this size, and whether there is a third option I haven't thought off. I'm using SQL Server 2014.
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Jun 5, 2015
Currently we has a database of size about 300G. Because our backup system failed some time past we were left with a transaction log file which grew to about 160G. However our backups are working again and everything is working fine. My understanding is that now the transaction log file is practically empty but the capacity remains at 160G.
When you delete records the deleted transactions are going to get logged to the transaction file. My understanding is when a backup is done these transactions get discarded out of the transaction file.
could I make use of this relatively large transaction file and start deleting transactions without out actually adding to the transaction file size.
The plan is to delete records from logging tables that are not referenced to by any other table without this increasing the transaction log file.For example over a period of a few weeks we can delete a chunk of records from a table. Then after it has completed a backup we can delete another chunk of records out of this table until we have got the table down to the records that we now need.Will this work?
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Jul 12, 2001
We currently have a data warehouse running on SQL 7.0, SP2. One of our primary fact tables is now well over 155 million rows in it. The table is not very wide, as it only contains 17 columns, most of which are defined as integers. The entire database is only 20 GB.
The issue is that the loads from the staging table to this fact table have significantly deteriorated over the last month or so, dropping from over 400 transactions per second to around 85. We drop all the indexes on the fact table before we load the data into it.
Are there issues with a manageable table size in SQL 7.0 that we need to be concerned about? And should we consider partitioning the table into several smaller tables and join them with a "union all" view?
I really need to get this performance issue resolved, as our IT support vendor is pushing us to port the data warehouse to UDB because they tell us that SQL server is not scalable enough to handle this volume of data.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Aug 31, 2001
Hi, anyone who administering the pretty big database not less than 30 Gb with the average number of rows in a table about 2M and more, please share you experience with maintenace of such a db. Esspecially i'm interesting in:
1) Indexes maintenance (When and how - just regular dbcc, maint. plan or some script to split the job twice and so on.)
2) Remove unused space from db. (not major)
The serever works 24*7, and it's transactional environment. SQL 7 sp3 on claster.
I run the sp. to rebuild all the indexes it takes about 2-3 hrs to determin the objects withfragmentation less than 80% and actually rebuilding, during this process the users experience the performance (specially for update/insert) problem. It looks like I need to change the plan or strategy to do this. Any thoughts appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Dmitri
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Aug 10, 2000
Hi,
How can i partition the large tables so that the insert and updates which iam doing on the tables take less time.
I want to know how can i partition large tables and if i do that how is that the performance is going to be increased.
Thanks.
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Oct 20, 2000
Hi,
I have inherited some databases whith extremely large Log files.
I tried the truncate transaction log but did not work.
Can some body please tell me how to truncate these log files.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello,
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