Shrinking the Transaction Log in SQL Server 2005

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Thomas Maurer
  • Use the MS SQL Server Management Studio

EXEC sp_dboption 'XXX', 'trunc. log on chkpt.', 'TRUE'
CHECKPOINT
DBCC SHRINKFILE ('XXX_Log', TRUNCATEONLY)
EXEC sp_dboption 'XXX', 'trunc. log on chkpt.', 'FALSE'
GO

  • (replace XXX with the database name)
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