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Shrinking a SQL Server Log File with Database in Always ON Availability.


Shrinking a SQL Server Log File with Database in Always ON Availability.

                   Once we had a situation in our production server that the database which is in Always ON Availability group has been grown to the maximum size.

 Many of them say that we can't shrink the log file as the database is in Always ON and we should take the downtime to perform the operation. But we shrink-ed the database log file to 5 GB from 180 GB.

Steps are as below:

--To Check the Number of pages allocated by the LogFile.
DBCC LOGINFO

--To check the file sixe
sp_helpdb [SQLPantry]

--To check the Log file Size
DBCC SQLPERF(LOGSPACE)

The above statement will show the logspace of all db at present situation.

--To check the Log_reuse_wait description of a log file.
select log_reuse_wait_desc,* from sys.databases

The above statement will show the status of the log whether it has to be backuped i.e., LogBackup, Nothing, Active Transaction. 

When ever there is status as Active Transaction then we have to wait till the transaction has completed and start Backup Log and shrink the log file.

--Take a log backup.
Backup log [SQLPantry] to disk='D:\Backups\OnyxDevDaily\1.trn'

The above statement will be used to backup the log first and then start the shrinking of log file.
Atleast  3 or 4 time we have to take the log backups and start the shrink operation on it.

--To shirnk the log file after taking the backup. and run back to back.
--Log File has grown to the Szie of 3008457 GB


DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,300000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,200000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,100000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,90000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,80000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,70000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,60000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,50000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,40000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,30000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,20000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,10000)
DBCC SHRINKFILE(2,5000)

The above statements are used to shrink the log file if the log has been increase to huge size then that has to be changed according to the requirement and perform it. 


--To check the open transactions on the Database


DBCC OPENTRAN()

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