Delete SQL Server 2005 records without logging

Question

How to delete records from SQL Server 2005 tables without logging them into transaction logs.

I do not wish to log because once deleted, those records will never be

Answer 1

Forget the transaction log as a source of the speed or anything other than something used internally by the DB to keep consistency. Instead, you should consider finding a way to do the delete in batches. Instead of a single delete statement, and if you had an integer PK on the table, try deleting ranges of values and do this in a loop. So something like

Declare @RecordsLeft int
Declare @StartRange int
Declare @EndRange int
Declare @BatchSize int

Set @BatchSize = 10000
Set @RecordsLeft = ( Select Count(*) From ... )
Set @StartRange = 0
Set @EndRange = @StartRange + @BatchSize

While @RecordsLeft > 0
Begin
    Delete ...
    Where ...
      And PK Between @StartRange And @EndRange

    Set @RecordsLeft = ( Select Count(*) From ... )
    Set @StartRange = @EndRange + 1
    Set @EndRange = @StartRange + @BatchSize
End