Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 04/16/07 22:14

eighthman11 (rdshultz@nooter.com) writes:
> We received a error message "Log File to Database is Full. Backup the
> transaction log to free up space."

I addition to Greg's post, ask yourself if you need up-to-the-point
recovery in case of a failure, or you are content with restoring the
last backup. In the latter case, say

ALTER DATABASE db SET RECOVERY SIMPLE

also run DBCC SHRINKFILE to reduve the log file to reasonble size.

Note: if you are not the DBA on the server, leave it to the DBA to do this.


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