December 1, 2006 at 1:46 am
but why ? setting to simple and then back to full acheives nothing other than forcing you to take another backup to start a new LSN chain.
what does setting to simple mode do for you that can't be done by a checkpoint and backup log?
MVDBA
December 1, 2006 at 10:42 am
I did not give a but why just a will work.
December 2, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Here is the proc from Andrew Zanevsky.
CREATE proc sp_force_shrink_log
@target_percent tinyint = 0,
@target_size_MB int = 10,
@max_iterations int = 1000,
@backup_log_opt nvarchar(1000) = 'with truncate_only'
as
set nocount on
declare @db sysname,
@last_row int,
@log_size decimal(25,2),
@unused1 decimal(25,2),
@unused decimal(25,2),
@shrinkable decimal(25,2),
@iteration int,
@file_max int,
@file int,
@fileid varchar(5)
select @db = db_name(),
@iteration = 0
create table #loginfo(
id int identity,
FileId int,
FileSize numeric(25,0),
StartOffset numeric(25,0),
FSeqNo int,
Status int,
Parity smallint,
CreateLSN Varchar(50)
)
create table #logfiles ( id int identity(1,1), fileid varchar(5) not null )
insert #logfiles ( fileid ) select convert( varchar, fileid ) from sysfiles
where status & 0x40 = 0x40
select @file_max = @@rowcount
if object_id( 'table_to_force_shrink_log' ) is null
exec( 'create table table_to_force_shrink_log ( x nchar(3000) not null )' )
insert #loginfo ( FileId, FileSize, StartOffset, FSeqNo, Status, Parity,
CreateLSN ) exec ( 'dbcc loginfo' )
select @last_row = @@rowcount
select @log_size = sum( FileSize ) / 1048576.00,
@unused = sum( case when Status = 0 then FileSize else 0 end ) /
1048576.00,
@shrinkable = sum( case when id < @last_row - 1 and Status = 0 then
FileSize else 0 end ) / 1048576.00
from #loginfo
select @unused1 = @unused -- save for later
select 'iteration' = @iteration,
'log size, MB' = @log_size,
'unused log, MB' = @unused,
'shrinkable log, MB' = @shrinkable,
'shrinkable %' = convert( decimal(6,2), @shrinkable * 100 /
@log_size )
while @shrinkable * 100 / @log_size > @target_percent
and @shrinkable > @target_size_MB
and @iteration < @max_iterations begin
select @iteration = @iteration + 1 -- this is just a precaution
exec( 'insert table_to_force_shrink_log select name from sysobjects
delete table_to_force_shrink_log')
select @file = 0
while @file < @file_max begin
select @file = @file + 1
select @fileid = fileid from #logfiles where id = @file
exec( 'dbcc shrinkfile( ' + @fileid + ' )' )
end
exec( 'backup log ' + @db + ' ' + @backup_log_opt )
truncate table #loginfo
insert #loginfo ( FileId, FileSize, StartOffset, FSeqNo, Status, Parity,
CreateLSN ) exec ( 'dbcc loginfo' )
select @last_row = @@rowcount
select @log_size = sum( FileSize ) / 1048576.00,
@unused = sum( case when Status = 0 then FileSize else 0 end ) /
1048576.00,
@shrinkable = sum( case when id < @last_row - 1 and Status = 0 then
FileSize else 0 end ) / 1048576.00
from #loginfo
select 'iteration' = @iteration,
'log size, MB' = @log_size,
'unused log, MB' = @unused,
'shrinkable log, MB' = @shrinkable,
'shrinkable %' = convert( decimal(6,2), @shrinkable * 100 /
@log_size )
end
if @unused1 < @unused
select 'After ' + convert( varchar, @iteration ) +
' iterations the unused portion of the log has grown from ' +
convert( varchar, @unused1 ) + ' MB to ' +
convert( varchar, @unused ) + ' MB.'
union all
select 'Since the remaining unused portion is larger than 10 MB,' where
@unused
> 10
union all
select 'you may try running this procedure again with a higher number of
iterations.' where @unused > 10
union all
select 'Sometimes the log would not shrink to a size smaller than several
Megabytes.' where @unused <= 10
else
select 'It took ' + convert( varchar, @iteration ) +
' iterations to shrink the unused portion of the log from ' +
convert( varchar, @unused1 ) + ' MB to ' +
convert( varchar, @unused ) + ' MB'
exec( 'drop table table_to_force_shrink_log' )
GO
MohammedU
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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