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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube GitHub Forgotten Maintenance - Cycling the SQL Server Error Log September 30, 2015Jeremiah Peschka20 comments Most of us get caught up in fragmentation, finding the slowest queries, and looking at new features. We forget the dbcc errorlog little things that make managing a SQL Server easier - like cylcing the SQL dbcc errorlog vs sp_cycle_errorlog Server error logs. What's the Error Log? The SQL Server error log is a file that is full of messages generated sp_cycle_errorlog best practice by SQL Server. By default this tells you when log backups occurred, other informational events, and even contains pieces and parts of stack dumps. In short, it's a treasure trove of information. When SQL https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186874.aspx Server is in trouble, it's nice to have this available as a source of information during troubleshooting. Unfortunately, if the SQL Server error log gets huge, it can take a long time to read the error log - it's just a file, after all, and the GUI has to read that file into memory. Keep the SQL Server Error Log Under Control It's possible to cycle the SQL Server https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/09/forgotten-maintenance-cycling-the-sql-server-error-log/ error log. Cycling the error log starts a new file, and there are only two times when this happens. When SQL Server is restarted. When you execute sp_cycle_errorlog Change everything! When SQL Server cycles the error log, the current log file is closed and a new one is opened. By default, these files are in your SQL Server executables directory in the MSSQL\LOG folder. Admittedly, you don't really need to know where these are unless you want to see how much room they take up. SQL Server keeps up to 6 error log files around by default. You can easily change this. Open up your copy of SSMS and: Expand the "Management" folder. Right click on "SQL Server Logs" Select "Configure" Check the box "Limit the number of error log files before they are recycled" Pick some value to put in the "Maximum number of error log failes" box Click "OK" It's just that easy! Admittedly, you have to do this on every SQL Server that you have, so you might just want to click the "Script" button so you can push the script to multiple SQL Servers. Automatically Rotating the SQL Server Error Log You can set up SQL Server to automatically rotate your
offers about SQL Server, BizTalk and SharePoint from MyTechMantra. We respect your privacy and you can unsubscribe at any time." How to Recycle SQL Server Error http://www.mytechmantra.com/LearnSQLServer/SQL-Server-Recycle-Error-Log-Without-Restarting-Service-DBCC-ErrorLog-or-SP_CYCLE_ERRORLOG/ Log file without restarting SQL Server Service Sept 15, 2014 Introduction SQL Server Error Log is the best place for a Database Administrators to look for informational messages, warnings, critical events, database recover information, auditing information, user generated messages etc. SQL Server creates a new error log file everytime SQL Server Database Engine is restarted. This error log article explains how to recycle SQL Server Error Log file without restarting SQL Server Service. Database administrator can recycle SQL Server Error Log file without restarting SQL Server Service by running DBCC ERRORLOG command or by running SP_CYCLE_ERRORLOG system stored procedure. Note:- Starting SQL Server 2008 R2 you can also limit the size of SQL Server Error cycle error log Log file. For more information see Limit SQL Server Error Log File Size in SQL Server. However, to increase the number of error log file see the following article for more information How to Increase Number of SQL Server Error Log Files. Recycle SQL Server ErrorLog File using DBCC ERRORLOG Command Execute the below TSQL code in SQL Server 2012 and later versions to set the maximum file size of individual error log files to 10 MB. SQL Server will create a new file once the size of the current log file reaches 10 MB. This helps in reducing the file from growing enormously large. USE [master]; GO DBCC ERRORLOG GO Recycle SQL Server Error Log File using SP_CYCLE_ERRORLOG System Stored Procedure Use [master]; GO SP_CYCLE_ERRORLOG GO Best Practice: It is highly recommended to create an SQL Server Agent Job to recycle SQL Server Error Log once a day or at least once a week. Conclusion This article explains how to Recycle SQL Server Error Log file