Drive Space Problem

Hi,
After searching this forum I haven't found a specific answer for my problem.
We have a 2003 server used for sql databases. We are running version 8 w/
service pack 3. What is happening is we are losing on average of 10GB of disk
space a day. If I reboot the server, the space comes back. I have tried some
of things listed in this forum to no avail, i.e. setting the databases
recovery to "simple" instead of "full". The actual .ldf and .mdf files
combined are only around 200 megs and the Log directory has less than 1MB in
it. Is there anything else I can check on the SQL side to eliminate it as
culprit?
Thanks for any help,
Joe GarciaPerhaps ODBC tracing is turned on? I believe the file is named SQL.LOG.
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"Joe G" <Joe G@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> After searching this forum I haven't found a specific answer for my problem.
> We have a 2003 server used for sql databases. We are running version 8 w/
> service pack 3. What is happening is we are losing on average of 10GB of disk
> space a day. If I reboot the server, the space comes back. I have tried some
> of things listed in this forum to no avail, i.e. setting the databases
> recovery to "simple" instead of "full". The actual .ldf and .mdf files
> combined are only around 200 megs and the Log directory has less than 1MB in
> it. Is there anything else I can check on the SQL side to eliminate it as
> culprit?
> Thanks for any help,
> Joe Garcia|||Maybe it is just the tempdb database (it gets cleaned during every restart
of sql server)
Marc
"Joe G" <Joe G@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:064FEED9-C3F9-48B2-A5D1-79926005D8E8@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> After searching this forum I haven't found a specific answer for my
problem.
> We have a 2003 server used for sql databases. We are running version 8 w/
> service pack 3. What is happening is we are losing on average of 10GB of
disk
> space a day. If I reboot the server, the space comes back. I have tried
some
> of things listed in this forum to no avail, i.e. setting the databases
> recovery to "simple" instead of "full". The actual .ldf and .mdf files
> combined are only around 200 megs and the Log directory has less than 1MB
in
> it. Is there anything else I can check on the SQL side to eliminate it as
> culprit?
> Thanks for any help,
> Joe Garcia|||"Joe G" <Joe G@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:064FEED9-C3F9-48B2-A5D1-79926005D8E8@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> After searching this forum I haven't found a specific answer for my
problem.
> We have a 2003 server used for sql databases. We are running version 8
w/
> service pack 3. What is happening is we are losing on average of 10GB of
disk
> space a day. If I reboot the server, the space comes back. I have tried
some
> of things listed in this forum to no avail, i.e. setting the databases
> recovery to "simple" instead of "full". The actual .ldf and .mdf files
> combined are only around 200 megs and the Log directory has less than
1MB in
> it. Is there anything else I can check on the SQL side to eliminate it
as
> culprit?
> Thanks for any help,
> Joe Garcia
You could set your databases to autoshrink.
robert|||"Robert Klemme" <bob.news@.gmx.net> wrote in message
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> "Joe G" <Joe G@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:064FEED9-C3F9-48B2-A5D1-79926005D8E8@.microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> > After searching this forum I haven't found a specific answer for my
> problem.
> > We have a 2003 server used for sql databases. We are running version 8
> w/
> > service pack 3. What is happening is we are losing on average of 10GB of
> disk
> > space a day. If I reboot the server, the space comes back. I have tried
> some
> > of things listed in this forum to no avail, i.e. setting the databases
> > recovery to "simple" instead of "full". The actual .ldf and .mdf files
> > combined are only around 200 megs and the Log directory has less than
> 1MB in
> > it. Is there anything else I can check on the SQL side to eliminate it
> as
> > culprit?
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Joe Garcia
> You could set your databases to autoshrink.
>
I would recommend against this though.
This can cause disk level file fragmentation. And it would only mask the
real problem.
I'd go for either tempdb or ODBC logging.
> robert
>