msdb growing in size

  • Hello Forum

    I have a primary and standby setup for one of our production databases; The msdb in the primary server (A) is 1.5GB in size and on the secondary server (B) is 500+MB; I have done switchover to the secondary thrice in the last 3 months but we switch back to the primary server within an hour. In other words most of the time (99.99%) it is only the primary server (A) shipping logs to (B);

    I read through the links

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic302807-169-1.aspx

    In the Secondary Server (B) the following are the results

    dbo log_shipping_monitor_history_detail 405.820

    dbo backupfile 7.070

    dbo backupset 5.203

    dbo backupmediafamily 1.914

    dbo sysjobhistory 1.875

    dbo restorefile 1.273

    dbo backupfilegroup 1.258

    dbo backupmediaset 1.117

    dbo restorehistory 1.008

    dbo log_shipping_monitor_error_detail 0.180

    dbo MSdbms_map 0.023

    etc.

    I tried the following

    use master

    sp_help_log_shipping_secondary_database @secondary_database = N'my_secondary_db'

    use master

    sp_cleanup_log_shipping_history

    @agent_id = '94DEB3BA-3EB2-57B9-C73B-7A00A429BEE3'

    , @agent_type = 2

    Command(s) completed successfully.

    sp_cleanup_log_shipping_history

    @agent_id = '94DEB3BA-3EB2-57B9-C73B-7A00A429BEE3''

    , @agent_type = 1

    Command(s) completed successfully.

    The msdb has not shrunk still. Any ideas?

  • Does MSDB grow everytime you fail over?

  • Good question. I did not notice to that extent. Next time i do switch over i will look at it. The suggestion i got is that delete from log_shipping_monitor_history_detail. Currently working on the same.:crying:

  • you have deleted from the tables but until you issue a dbcc shrinkfile or shrinkdatabase you will not see a reduction in the size of the database files. Does an sp_spaceused show a large amount of freespace in the database? If so shrink the database, unless disk space is not a problem, in which case leave it as is.

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