How to clear the log files without Management Studio

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Hi All,
I am using a WSS 3.0 with SQL Server 2005.The size of the log files are increasing rapidly.I want to delete the log files.I have tried to install the free trial versions of Management studio unfortunately those are not workable in my server.Is there any alternate way to clear the log files.
Thanks,
Satish.

Posted 18-Feb-13 19:33pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Feb-13 1:48am

How about "del *.*"? :-) However, it would probably requires stopping the server and then re-starting it, I'm not quite sure...
—SA

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Khorshed Alam, Dhaka · Answer 1 · 2013-02-19T18:08:00

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Areyou talk about Database Log file (.mdf) is growing or the debugging log generated by sharepoint?

Posted 19-Feb-13 18:08pm

Khorshed Alam, Dhaka