Delete Sql Dump Files

Can we delete Transaction Log File?

Files

SQL CREATE DIRECTORY DUMPFILES1 AS '/usr/apps/dumpfiles1'; Then, a user on a UNIX-based client system using csh can assign the value DUMPFILES1 to the environment variable DATAPUMPDIR. The DIRECTORY parameter can then be omitted from the command line. The dump file employees.dmp, and the log file export.log, are written to '/usr/apps. Nov 22, 2011 Errorlog is the file written by SQL Server with general error/informational messages. This should tell you which process is generating the AV errors. You can open that file in notepad to get more info. In the short-term, you can delete files named SQLDumpnnnn.mdmp, since they are not active (though you'll lose the debug info contained in them). I have approximately 250GB of dump files on my disk and they are consuming the space that is left rapidly. I don't know what to do. They are located in Microsoft SQL Server MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER MSSQL Log Polybase dump. So, my question is. Can I delete them? How can you stop this from happening? Sorry for my bad English and for.

We can not delete primary transaction log file, but we can delete secondary log files.

Sometimes we can create a second log file on another disk as a workaround because the log file is full.

If we do not delete these temporary secondary log files over time, log file count will increase.

When we have free space on the disk where the first log file is located, or when we move this first log file to another disk with sufficient space, we can delete these temporary secondary log files.

To see how a second log file is added to the database, you may want to read the article “How To Add The Second Log File to the Database”.

If your database’s recovery model is Full Recovery Model, I recommend that you backup your transaction log. So, your transaction log file automatically truncated after log backup and this prevents your transaction log to growing too much.

You may want to read the following articles to learn detailed information about recovery models and transaction log.

“What is Database Recovery Model“,

“What is SQL Server Transaction Log“,

“How To Shrink SQL Server Transaction Log”

Empty Secondary Transaction Log File Before Removing

After backing up the transaction log, we need to shrink the log file we want to delete with empty option.

First we right-click on the database and click Tasks-> Shrink-> Files.

We select the Log option from the File type section as shown below.

We choose the file we want to shrink from the file name.

In the Shrink action section, we also select “Empty file by migrating the data to other files in the same filegroup”.

In this way we are able to transfer the data in the log file to the other log files.

Before we click Ok, let’s take the script by clicking on the “Script” at the top left. This will output a script like the following.

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You can remove the log file by combining these two scripts as follows.