Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...

Manage the size of the transaction log file [!INCLUDE SQL Server] This topic covers how to monitor [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] transaction log size, shrink the transaction log, add to or enlarge a ...

Log files can grow quite large. During an Accounting upgrade, the log file grew to 250Gb! And it did not shrink. The 'people' that wrote the accounting software decided to do the upgrade as a single ...

I have found some information online that says I need to use SQL server to shrink this file. I did not have SQL server installed on the server.

Using the Transact SQL ALTER DATABASE statement to shrink the transaction log file Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and click Query Analyzer to open the Query Analyzer window.

So I have a specific database that won't release and shrink its log files. The DB backups are happening successfully, but I still have 4GB of logfiles (and no, this DB does not generate 4GB of log ...