Logs full even with Simple model

  • I have a job that is failing with 'log full' (9002). The db is SIMPLE, the log file is actually quite large (15G) for a simple db (historical reasons).

    The actual transactions shouldn't (I think) be causing an issue, a table is TRUNCATEd, then a copy command to bring rows over from a linked server (SELECT INTO ... ). There is no processing of data involved.

    'log_reuse_wait_desc' = 'NOTHING'; log file free space is about 99%

    Any thoughts?

    [BTW the total rows of all 28 tables is only about 20M rows]

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  • Something in the job is filling the log, failing and rolling back, leaving the log empty again after it completes.

    You're going to have to monitor log reuse reason and % full while the job runs to diagnose why the log is filling.

    Gail Shaw
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