Huge Transaction Log - Is This Normal?

Question

I have a 5GB database and a 20GB transaction log (SQL Server 2005). Not sure why it is so large or what happened to make it that large, it used to be around 1/2 the size of

Answer 1

In terms of "is this normal", keep in mind that transactions accumulate in the log forever until you get the backups and checkpoints set up properly. For instance, if you don't get this going, every record in the database has at least one insert transaction.