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Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T04:13:13+00:00 2026-05-11T04:13:13+00:00

This question might be kind of elementary, but here goes: I have a SQL

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This question might be kind of elementary, but here goes:

I have a SQL Server database with a 4 GB log file. The DB is 16GB and is backed up nightly.

Can I truncate the log regularly because the entire DB+Log is backed up each night?

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  1. 2026-05-11T04:13:13+00:00Added an answer on May 11, 2026 at 4:13 am

    you can something like this to you maintenance schedule to run every night before the backup. This will try to shrink/truncate your log file to 1 meg

    BACKUP LOG DBNAME TO disk = 'D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup\DBNAME.log' DBCC SHRINKFILE('DBNAME_Log', 1) 
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