Comments on: SharePoint Config database Log file too big – reduce it!

By: Boris Gomiunik

Boris Gomiunik — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:14:06 +0000

@Haas:Please check if you’re using normal single quotes. Copy-paste from this place might copy wrong quotes.

By: Haas

Haas — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:04:58 +0000

At the schrinkfile command is give an error:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near ‘’’.

What is wrong?

By: Boris Gomiunik

Boris Gomiunik — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:43:59 +0000

@Andrew: Which was the error message?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:10:10 +0000

I tried both solutions and both didn’t work. The second method threw an error message

By: Amauri

Amauri — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:31:07 +0000

by the way, this SBS 2003 R2 and the databse refers to a site called intranet. Companyweb works fine.

By: Amauri

Amauri — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:26:30 +0000

Hi, I happen to have a configuration file that is 74 GBs. But cannot find the file under SQL 2005 Management Studio. The file is in a weird location (c:\windows\sysim\etc…\data\configuration file… how do I find the database under SQL MAnagement Studio? Thanks,

By: Alastair

Alastair — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:09:35 +0000

Thanks, very good clear article, my log file went from 97Gb to 1 Gb, now thats a space saving!

By: CC Lowe

CC Lowe — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:33:10 +0000

Just encountered this problem, we followed MS suggestion to reduce and worked okay. My question is how do we keep it in check. You said something about “if you don’t perform full farm backup” Does this help keep the file from growing out of control?

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:03:55 +0000

Very useful. Thank you.

By: Srikanth

Srikanth — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:34:54 +0000

really superb explanation thanks you saved me