Table 21-1 summarizes the commands for creating, modifying, and dropping user databases and their transaction logs.
Command |
Task |
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create database...on dev_name or alter database...on dev_name |
Makes database devices available to a particular Adaptive Server database. When used without the on dev_name clause, these commands allocate space from the default pool of database devices. |
dbcc checktable(syslogs) |
Reports the size of the log. |
sp_logdevice |
Specifies a device that will store the log when the current log device becomes full. |
sp_helpdb |
Reports information about a database’s size and devices. |
sp_spaceused |
Reports a summary of the amount of storage space used by a database. |