SQL Server Log File is HUGE!

To avoid the transaction log growth, you can remove rows by batches within a WHILE cycle. This will help you to reduce the work of your transaction log.

I have a table with 20 Gb of data. I want to delete 90% of data let's say 18 gb data from the table with DELETE command with some condition.

Under full or bulk logged recovery modal, all data modifications in SQL are logged. It's not possible to do any modification without logging it.

Create a temporary table with just the data we need to keep · Truncate the original table · Copy data back from temporary table back to the ...

I am going to delete millions of rows in each batch which I cannot delete them together since there are too many rows. I was thinking of deleting rows with no ...

The simplest option is to Truncate table, something like TRUNCATE TABLE LargeTable GO. Truncate table will simply empty the table, you cannot use WHERE clause ...

The WITH NO LOG keywords, however, prevent transaction logging of any DELETE, INSERT, LOAD, MERGE, SELECT, UNLOAD, or UPDATE operations on tab2. Parent topic: ...

There is no way to run a delete statement without it being logged. What is your recovery model? How many rows are you deleting?

If you want to remove data without logging, you can't be selective, you can use the TRUCATE statement, but there are all kinds of limits on that ...

We have a SQL Table with over 155 million rows covering about 10 years. We want to delete out all by the current 4 years worth of data but are concerned it ...