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Answer by Rob Farley

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The fact that your log file is always the same size is really healthy. The log file itself won't shrink unless you ask it to. Truncating won't actually shrink the file, just mark it for re-use. If your log file had filled up, it would be needing to grow. Also, your log backups would be large.

How big are your backups? That's often a nice indication about how much data is in your log file at any point in time.

Another way of checking the size of the log file is within Management Studio. Right-click on the database in question, go to Tasks, Shrink File. Don't actually tell it to shrink anything, just have a look to see what the dialog tells you when you pick Log from the "File Type" combo. It'll probably tell you that the file is 99% empty.


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