Deleting records in the logfile

I have a database that is used to store a lot of data. We load the data on a
daily basis, several thousand records per day. The Log file is not needed,
so whats the best way to delete the records in it and reduce the size

Thanks

Derrick"Derrick King" <derrick.king@.bradford.gov.uk> wrote in message
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> I have a database that is used to store a lot of data. We load the data on
a
> daily basis, several thousand records per day. The Log file is not needed,
> so whats the best way to delete the records in it and reduce the size
> Thanks
> Derrick

You don't mention which version of MSSQL you have, but assuming it's 2000,
then see "Recovery Models" in Books Online. If you don't need transaction
log backups, the easiest solution is probably to set the database to Simple
recovery mode, which will automatically recover log space if possible.

If that's not acceptable, then you can consider transaction log backups (if
you don't already do that), which will truncate the log. Truncating the log
frees up log space but does not make it physically smaller, so you may also
need to use DBCC SHRINKFILE - see "Shrinking Databases".

Simon