>Ken,
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>Check message#647568
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>The link contains T-SQL code that you can run from the query analyzer.
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>>Hi - SQL7 - I have a runaway log file on a database. It was set to auto grow and somebody probably ran up a huge transaction. Anyway - it is now a 1.25 GIG log file for a 84 meg database. How can I get the log file down to say 20-30 meg? If I attempt to modify I am told that the new size must be larger than the old, which is certainly not what I want.
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>>FYI - I have also tried DBCC ShrinkFile - and though it runsfine - the file size remains unchanged
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>> Thanks!

Thanks All - will give it a try