Hi, apologies for posting SQL Server here, but there aren't many participants in the SQL Server forum yet. I suppose I am only making the problem worse by posting here and not there, but hey ho, the works's gotta get done!

I have SQL 6.5 database. The Data and Log share the same device (not my idea). I was copy a very large table into the DB when I got an 'out of log space' error (actually caused by the device being filled by the table).

So I DUMP TRANSACTION dbName WITH NO_LOG, and extended the size of the device and the database by 300 MB. When I look at the database in SQL Enterprise manager, it gives the correct new DB Size as 1600MB, but still shows 0 bytes available for data. Also I cannot add any more records to my very large table as I get more out of space errors.

It has been suggested that I backup the database (2 hours), delete and recreate the database, then restore the data (2 hours again). Does anyone have any quicker suggestions?