Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Small Business Server 2011 Standard edition.
I have a small customer with a large LDF file. The MDF file is 1,5 GB and the LDF file is 97 GB. Heh. Hasn't been backed up (properly) in eight months.
I'm not a database administration expert, but what I did was taking a FULL DB backup, and then tried to shrink the LDF file; it went down to 92 GB.
As far as I know, so far, I need to backup the LDF file, to be able to truncate it, to be able to really shrink it. - Correct?
But if so, there's a new problem, namely, there's really no place to put 92 GB of data. I can transfer 92 GB of data, but I'm not able to map remotely to a folder from this server. (I'm working via Team Viewer.)
Any ideas? :-)