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How to Shrink TempDB in Sql Server?

To Shrink TempDB in Sql Server below ideas can help you to handle the issue. If it is data file then Instead of shrinking you should check the open transactions causing tempdb to get full..if it is not critical you can kill the process or else should add secondary data files. Shrinking log whereas is safe witch you can do by dbcc shrinkfile command. 1)If mdf file is full we can shrink that but sometimes we can’t shrink mdf file the reasons are: (i)check if any locks are there through (sys.dm_tran_locks)or sp_locks (ii)check for sys.dm_db_session_space_usage which will allows to check for page allocation and deallocation for each session on that instance (iii)check for temporary objects in tempdb using (select * from sys.all_objects where is_ms_shipped=0)-ser created temp objects. These are called as cached objects which are residing in procedure cache which helps stored procedure to make use of the query plan. But now it is not getting shrinked we have to perform DBCC FREEPROCCACH...

How to add files to logshipped SQL database?

Run log back up job on primary server and disable backup job to make sure not to run any backup jobs further until we enable again. check the log back ups if there are any need to be restored on secondary db, restore them if any until all the log backups complete. Then disable the log shipping add mdf-ldf file take a log backup and restore the same on secondary database them enable log shipping and enable backup job as well. If the drives and path exist on secondary log shipping will not break, if the drives are different obviously log shipping will fail.u have to disable all jobs in primary make sure that in between no backups will happen. restore that log file backup with move option. If the path of both files are same it wont break logshipping. If.If path is different then manually restore that particular log backup with move option.