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2063467 - How to Truncate and Manage a Transaction Log file (.log) in SQL Anywhere

Symptom

  • SQL Anywhere uses a transaction log to record all of the changes that occur in a database.
  • In many circumstances, disk space limitations make it impractical to let the transactionlogs grow indefinitely to record all historical data.
  • How should the transaction log maintenance be handled to ensure that the database backups and restores are maintained?


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Environment

  • SAP SQL Anywhere (all versions, all platforms)
  • SAP Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0 SP7 and higher
  • SAP Crystal Server

Product

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.2 ; SAP Crystal Server 2013 ; SAP SQL Anywhere 16.0 ; SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 12.0 ; SQL Anywhere 9.0 ; Sybase SQL Anywhere 10.0 ; Sybase SQL Anywhere 11.0

Keywords

.log file, Transaction log, sybase, business objects, bobj, dblog, truncate, truncation, SQL Any, SQLA, SQL, changes , KBA , BC-SYB-SQA , SQL Anywhere (on premise, on demand) , BI-BIP-ADM , BI Servers, security, Crystal Reports in Launchpad , BI-BIP-SRV , CMS / Auditing issues (excl. 3rd Party Authentication) , BI-BIP , Business intelligence platform , MOB-AFA , Afaria , How To

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