[windows2000] Re: Sql 2000 question
- From: "Ray Costanzo" <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:06:33 -0500
Hi Patrick,
You can do it like this, or you can manually look up the fileid by just
doing a "select * from sysfiles"
declare @fileid int
select @fileid = fileid from sysfiles where name =
'YOUR-DASHED-FILENAME_LOG'
dbcc shrinkfile (@fileid)
Note that the name of the file is typically the physical filename without
the .ldf extension. Maybe it's best just to first do "select * from
sysfiles" and then run dbcc shrinkfile
(theIDyouGetFromSysfilesTableManually)
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:25 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Sql 2000 question
we were running the shrinkfile command and it kept throwing up errors with
the file name. I have seen it somewhere that - not _ are not allowed within
the file name. We ran same command on other files without the - and it
worked. Not quite sure how we can run the command on ID rather than filename
still quite new to Sql.
Thanks
----- Original Message ----
From: Ray Costanzo <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 12:52:15 PM
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Sql 2000 question
What is the problem that you are having? That is, why command are you
executing, what results are you expecting, and what results are you getting?
I don?t recall having problems with dashes in file names, but I can?t
specifically remember an instance where I had a dash either. Have you tried
shrinking the file by ID instead of by name?
From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:32 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Sql 2000 question
Hi Guys,
Not quite sure if I would find the answer here, but I will ask anyway.
We have an SQL server 2000, with a DB Fire-fly2000.mdb (350mb), and a
corresponding logfile Fire-fly2000.ldf (69GB). Now the issue is that we want
to shink the .ldf file cos of disk space, but we are having a problem with
the naming convention. SQL does not like - in names. Is there a way we can
get around this?
Thanks
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