Multiple Transaction Log Files

  • We have multiple transaction log files configured for some of our high volume clients; this is done for disaster prevention reasons. Should transaction log backups fail repeatedly during late night activities, and no tech notification go out in time, a secondary log file generally lets stuff keep going on a 'spillover' volume until backup and truncation issues are resolved.

    Our issue with this strategy is: once SQL Server has hit a threshold that requires utilization of this secondary log file, after backup issues are resolved, SQL Server appears to continue to use this secondary file, while leaving the primary log file alone. What is the reason for this? How do we ensure SQL Server will return to using this primary log file (perhaps it's on a SAN and resides on higher performance drives than the failover file does...)

    Thanks!

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