How to truncate and Shrink transaction log?
Truncate the transaction log
- Right-click the database and select Properties -> Options.
- Set the recovery model to Simple and exit the menu.
- Right-click the database again and select Tasks -> Shrink -> Files.
- Change the type to Log .
- Under Shrink action, select Reorganize pages before releasing unused space and click OK.
When to Shrink transaction log?
The Shrink operation helps when the SQL Transaction Log file contains unused space or after performing a database operation that writes a large number of Transaction Logs.
How can I tell if a SQL Server transaction is committed?
6 Answers. XACT_STATE() reports the transaction state of a session, indicating whether or not the session has an active transaction, and whether or not the transaction is capable of being committed. It returns three values: 1, The session has an active transaction.
What does it mean when DBCC loginfo returns many rows with..?
What does it mean when DBCC LOGINFO returns many rows with status = 2 and DBCC OPENTRAN returns no active open transactions? Status = 2 means that VLF can’t be reused (overwritten) at this time and it doesn’t necessarily mean that VLF is still active and writing transactions to that VLF.
Where is the status 2 transaction in DBCC?
This is indicated by the status 2 transaction being at the top (not the bottom), having several VLF’s with 0 status and then the usual active portion at the bottom. Is there any way to know what transaction this is and to force it to the inactive portion of the log?
Why is my transaction log cannot be truncated?
When I run the command DBCC LOGINFO, a few of the Status rows contain 2. Now I want to check why my transaction log cannot be truncated. How do I see this? Does the 2 mean in the Status that they are not reusable or an action is waiting (backup, restore)? Is it saying that it cannot be truncated?
Why does exec SP _ repldone not work in DBCC?
EXEC sp_repldone @xactid = NULL, @xact_segno = NULL, @numtrans = 0, @time = 0, @reset = 1 However, the first command doesn’t work because replication was never even configured on this server. So I configured a distribution database (scripted it), ran the above commands, and then dropped dropped replication on the server.