http://www.calvinirwin.net/2009/08/24/sql-server-shrink-logs-and-custom-backup-script/ Evil beware! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:20:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.calvinirwin.net/2009/08/24/sql-server-shrink-logs-and-custom-backup-script/comment-page-1/#comment-477 Cindy Gross Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:03:53 +0000 http://www.calvinirwin.net/?p=165#comment-477 PLEASE do not regularly shrink your database files! Search on the evils of shrinking and you will find plenty of posts telling why it's so horribly bad for performance and why it doesn't really help anyway. Make sure you read the posts on excessive VLFs as well. Instead of shrinking, properly schedule your tran log backups and keep your transactions small/short. PLEASE do not regularly shrink your database files! Search on the evils of shrinking and you will find plenty of posts telling why it’s so horribly bad for performance and why it doesn’t really help anyway. Make sure you read the posts on excessive VLFs as well. Instead of shrinking, properly schedule your tran log backups and keep your transactions small/short.

]]> http://www.calvinirwin.net/2009/08/24/sql-server-shrink-logs-and-custom-backup-script/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Calvin Irwin Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:23:40 +0000 http://www.calvinirwin.net/?p=165#comment-20 Sorry I forgot to mention that you will need a db mail profile setup on the server in order for the mailing of log. In the above script its set to "default" Sorry I forgot to mention that you will need a db mail profile setup on the server in order for the mailing of log. In the above script its set to “default”

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