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Shrinking the Transaction Log in SQL Server 2005

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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Shrinking the Transaction Log in SQL Server 2000

Use the SQL Query Analyzer BACKUP LOG XXX WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY GO DBCC SHRINKFILE(XXX_log, 10) GO (replace XXX with the database name)

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