Corruption of Syslogs (log suicide)
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Log Suicide
Note: Data integrity cannot be guaranteed - this procedure is not recommended for production systems.
1) update sysdatabases set status=-32768, status2=0 where name='suspect_database' 2) shutdown with nowait 3) restart dataserver 4) dump tran suspect_database with no_log 5) update sysdatabases set status=12, status2=0 where name='suspect_database' 6) recycle dataserver