Resisting the creation of new log files when SQL SERVER is restarted

Hi,
I know that when SQL server is restarted new log files are created. But is it possible to resist creating new log fils and insert log data in the existing log files that are used before restarting the sql server

Hello,
I guess Raghvendra answered your question. And as per your previous post its not clear what you want to ask an you did not revert. Again if your issue is solved appreciate if you can please mark the answer and vote the posts helpful.
Can I continue to log in the same file.?
What does this line mean exactly ? Yes SQL Server will continue to use same transaction log file(LDF file) for writing information as it was using before shutdown. If you are talking about errorlog file a new errorlog file would be created which you can
read using
sp_readerrorlog
Even if you stopped SQL Server service mistakenly its not that server is gone. Yes when you stopped the server all inflight transactions are rolled back. And when SQL Server would come online it would undergo crash recovery and would bring all the databases
online by reading transaction log file and performing redo and undo of information. All committed transaction would be rolled forward and uncommitted would be rolled back.
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