{"id":498,"date":"2012-03-16T16:41:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T20:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2012-06-04T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:34:50","slug":"sql-server-reclaiming-the-bloated-modellog-ldf-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server: reclaiming the bloated modellog.ldf file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a virtual test server with a very small (7Gb) C: drive, and the monitors were throwing alerts about low disk space. There weren&#8217;t any temp files, etc, that could be deleted to quickly free up space. \u00a0Tree Size revealed that there was a 3.5Gb file named modellog.ldf, which was clearly bloated comparing it to the other databases on the server.<\/p>\n<p>I found this technique which quickly solved the problem:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itbangbang.net\/2010\/06\/how-to-shrink-large-modellogldf-file.html\">http:\/\/www.itbangbang.net\/2010\/06\/how-to-shrink-large-modellogldf-file.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a virtual test server with a very small (7Gb) C: drive, and the monitors were throwing alerts about low disk space. There weren&#8217;t any temp files, etc, that could be deleted to quickly free up space. \u00a0Tree Size revealed that there was a 3.5Gb file named modellog.ldf, which was clearly bloated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server","category-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}