log file issues

I am having a problem with the size of my primary filegroup. I have the
'automatically grow' option turned on. I have 7GB free disk space.But still
the log file complains that it does not have enough space to grow.Can anyone
please help me out? Thanks in advance.Can somebody pls help?
"HP" wrote:

> I am having a problem with the size of my primary filegroup. I have the
> 'automatically grow' option turned on. I have 7GB free disk space.But stil
l
> the log file complains that it does not have enough space to grow.Can anyo
ne
> please help me out? Thanks in advance.|||Do you back it up regularly ? (Assuming that you're using the FULL recovery
mode which should be the case)
Also, do you have heavy processing which could generate big T-Log ?
Chris
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>I am having a problem with the size of my primary filegroup. I have the
> 'automatically grow' option turned on. I have 7GB free disk space.But
> still
> the log file complains that it does not have enough space to grow.Can
> anyone
> please help me out? Thanks in advance.|||Iam getting this error when i try to change the datatype of a field in a
table which has 2 million records.
"Chris V." wrote:

> Do you back it up regularly ? (Assuming that you're using the FULL recover
y
> mode which should be the case)
> Also, do you have heavy processing which could generate big T-Log ?
> Chris
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> It's still better that if it would have been worst, isn't it ?
> C'est toujours mieux que si c'etait pire !
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To do such operation will generae a lot of writting in the transaction (to
be able to roll-back).
How look the transaction you're using for the update ?
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C'est toujours mieux que si c'etait pire !
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> Iam getting this error when i try to change the datatype of a field in a
> table which has 2 million records.
> "Chris V." wrote:
>|||HP
Well, sometimes autogrow is a little 'slow' and you get the error message,i
mean it could not allocate free space to grow the log.
Try change autogrow option to less percent or by 100MB.
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> You've got your winner...
> To do such operation will generae a lot of writting in the transaction (to
> be able to roll-back).
> How look the transaction you're using for the update ?
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> C'est toujours mieux que si c'etait pire !
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