BULK DELETE ON SQL SERVER

We have a requirement to delete 20 million rows from a table A
containing 21 million rows
and insert 800,000 rows into table A from another table B.
We are getting the message:
Server: Msg 9002, Level 17, State 2, Line 1
The transaction log for database 'ledgerdb' is full. To find out why
space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column
in sys.databases
Server
Is there any way to do this deletion of 20 million rows out of 21
million rows in SQL server 2005 without writing log data?
Regards
Rajagopal NSHi
SELECT INTO ... FROM originaltable WHERE ...1mln rows to remain
DROP original table that nopw contains 20 mln rows. Rename a new created
table to original.
<rajagopal.ns@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> We have a requirement to delete 20 million rows from a table A
> containing 21 million rows
> and insert 800,000 rows into table A from another table B.
> We are getting the message:
> Server: Msg 9002, Level 17, State 2, Line 1
> The transaction log for database 'ledgerdb' is full. To find out why
> space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column
> in sys.databases
> Server
> Is there any way to do this deletion of 20 million rows out of 21
> million rows in SQL server 2005 without writing log data?
> Regards
> Rajagopal NS
>|||You also may want to change the Recovery Model to "Bulk Log" while
performing this operation.
Or, you may change it to Simple Recovery Model and after the operation to
FULL model again. Otherwise, your ldf file may blow up :)
--
Ekrem Önsoy
<rajagopal.ns@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1188982556.629589.151750@.19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
> We have a requirement to delete 20 million rows from a table A
> containing 21 million rows
> and insert 800,000 rows into table A from another table B.
> We are getting the message:
> Server: Msg 9002, Level 17, State 2, Line 1
> The transaction log for database 'ledgerdb' is full. To find out why
> space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column
> in sys.databases
> Server
> Is there any way to do this deletion of 20 million rows out of 21
> million rows in SQL server 2005 without writing log data?
> Regards
> Rajagopal NS
>