DB Log shrink job failure. No often, Once in a while.

  • Hello Experts

    I wrote a custom procedure to shrink the db log files alone. It works well always but yesterday in one of the server the job execution was failed.

    Error msg:

    : The log for database 'ReportServer$DB' failed to grow while shrink in progress. Please retry. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 50000) Error 9020, Severity 16, State 2,

    Do you smell any sign of issue here?

    The code is v simple. It just shrinks the db log files of all user dbs.

    I also checked and confirm you that against all dbs the auto-shrink feature is disabled.

    If you have any suggestion on this, please do post to me.

    Thanks.

  • SQL-DBA-01 (6/19/2015)


    Hello Experts

    I wrote a custom procedure to shrink the db log files alone. It works well always but yesterday in one of the server the job execution was failed.

    Error msg:

    : The log for database 'ReportServer$DB' failed to grow while shrink in progress. Please retry. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 50000) Error 9020, Severity 16, State 2,

    Do you smell any sign of issue here?

    The code is v simple. It just shrinks the db log files of all user dbs.

    I also checked and confirm you that against all dbs the auto-shrink feature is disabled.

    If you have any suggestion on this, please do post to me.

    Well, basically the error is saying that the log failed to grow while a shrink was in progress.

    So, it means exactly what it says: Something was going on that required the log to grow; but it cannot grow while it's in the process of shrinking. You also cannot shrink the log during a backup (database or transaction log).

    The bigger question is: Why are you shrinking your logs in the first place?

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