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The Pool Water is DEFINITELY NOT Cold (a SQL management question)

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This is not another episode of Seinfeld

I need some help with my SQL database. Particularly my enormously BIG transaction log.

I inherited the this setup when I started 3 yrs ago and not being a DB admin of any kind had no clue what was configured right or wrong. Recently the Transaction log has grown to fill the entire free space of a 500GB drive on a virtual server. It started creating exception errors in our web application. Not knowing how to remedy the situation quickly the "correct" way, I resized the virtual drive to add another 250GBs. The transcaction eventually has grown to suck up all that space too. Fortunately, before it has started becoming a big problem I figured out that I wasn't performing an transaction log backups, only database backups. I've now started to do this and have frozen the size of my LDF file to 575GBs and...


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