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up and rise to the top Safe way to truncate SQL Server Error Log up vote 10 down vote favorite 3 We are running out of space. What is the safe way to clear the error log? sql-server sql-server-2008-r2 disk-space errors truncate share|improve this question edited Jan 2 '13 at 15:51 Thomas Stringer 31.6k572117 asked Jan 2 '13 at 15:21 aron 245137 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 14 down
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vote accepted You can cycle the error log by calling sp_cycle_errorlog and then that will close the current error log and cycle the log extensions. Basically, it'll create a new error log file that SQL Server will be hitting. Then the archived error log(s) can be treated accordingly (delete/move with caution). This will not technically "truncate" the log, it'll just roll it over and you can handle the old logs as you so please, like any other file system file. When you do this, you should see a new log file with an entry that resembles the following: The error log has been reinitialized. See the previous log for older entries. BOL reference on sp_cycle_errorlog share|improve this answer answered Jan 2 '13 at 15:36 Thomas Stringer 31.6k572117 3 @JohnDaCosta what? No. Read the question again and take a closer look at the picture. –ivanmp Jan 5 '13 at 9:00 @JohnDaCosta please reread the question. I believe you are mistaken. –Thomas Stringer Jan 5 '13 at 12:56 It's worth noting that sp_cycle_errorlog only recycles ONE log file. But because there are 7 files, if you really want to purge them and save space (as I did) you will need to run the command several times (7 times to be exact). And each time you run it one o
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about hiring developers or posting ads with us Database Administrators Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Database Administrators sql server event log Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for database professionals who wish to improve their database skills and learn from others in the community. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/31298/safe-way-to-truncate-sql-server-error-log up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Does SQL Server ever delete old error log files? up vote 11 down vote favorite I know I can cycle the current error log easily by running sp_cycle_errorlog, but I'm wondering if SQL Server will ever delete the old/archived error log http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/81388/does-sql-server-ever-delete-old-error-log-files files at all. Can't seem to find an answer to this anywhere... sql-server error-log share|improve this question asked Oct 29 '14 at 14:36 tuseau 5454916 Thanks all for the help. –tuseau Oct 29 '14 at 15:10 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 16 down vote accepted There is a setting if you right click on "SQL Server Logs" and select "Configure". You can tell it how many log files you want to keep. Once it reaches that number it will start removing the old ones. share|improve this answer answered Oct 29 '14 at 14:43 Kenneth Fisher 16.7k53070 add a comment| Did you find this question interesting? Try our newsletter Sign up for our newsletter and get our top new questions delivered to your inbox (see an example). Subscribed! Success! Please click the link in the confirmation email to activate your subscription. up vote 8 down vote Restart SQL Server 7 times. You will see you still have only 7 ERRORLOG* files (depending on version). This is the current log file and the 6 most recent log files. Note: You may need to change 7 to something else, i
to delete it to free space on my hard drive. Can the SQL Server ErrorLog file be safely deleted without harming SQL Server?By default SQL Server stores seven ErrorLog files named: ErrorLog ErrorLog.1 ErrorLog.2 ErrorLog.3 http://fkauffmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-safely-delete-sql-server.html ErrorLog.4 ErrorLog.5 ErrorLog.6 In SQL Server 2005 and later versions, the ErrorLog files are stored in the c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG folder. The ErrorLog file contains the newest information; the ErrorLog.6 file contains the oldest information. Every time https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/355751-deleting-sql-log-files SQL Server is restarted, the log files cycle as follows: All data in the ErrorLog.6 file is deleted and a new ErrorLog file is created. All data in the previous ErrorLog file is written to the ErrorLog.1 error log file. All data in the previous ErrorLog.1 file is written to the ErrorLog.2 file. etc. If one of the ErrorLog files has grown to a large size, the ErrorLog files can be manually cycled by running the sp_cycle_errorlog Stored Procedure. The data in the older ErrorLog files will be overwritten! Copy the older ErrorLog files to some external media if they must be saved. It is safe to delete the files, however, you should sql error log not ignore them, and solve the underlying issue. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest 2 comments: Anonymous said... Thanks Fabrice - very helpful. March 13, 2014 at 5:11 PM eralper said... Thank you for the information, I did not know the stored procedure which updates the log files and deletes the oldest one. Good to know managing the log files by code. September 29, 2015 at 5:12 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Fabrice Kauffmann Software Architect and Project Manager since 1993 in a wide variety of business applications (Web & Desktop Development, Content and Document Management, Mobile Devices, Business Intelligence, Database, OCR/ICR/OMR, Image Processing...) View my complete profile Visitors Categories .net core (1) 3d (1) 3g (1) asp.net (15) azure (1) bluetooth (2) c (2) c# (10) camera (2) cloud (2) css (2) database (9) directx (1) exchange (1) firefox (1) gnome (2) html (2) iis (11) javascript (2) jquery (1) linux (3) monitoring (1) node.js (1) nosql (1) opengl (2) python (1) razor (1) sbs (1) sécurité (1) security (1) streaming (1) twitter (1) ubuntu (3) vala (2) VB.NET (1) vs2010 (3) windows 7 (3) windows mobile (2) windows server (6) winforms (1) wpf (1) wss (2) xubuntu (1) Popular How To Safely Delete SQL Server ErrorLog Files
Pump System Jasper Reporting Server Setting up a Jasper Reporting Server Community Edition. New ERP New ERP Implementation TECHNOLOGY IN THIS DISCUSSION Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Join the Community! Creating your account only takes a few minutes. Join Now Hello All, My SQL database has generated very large log files of about 42GB saved on 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG' location. i have ran out of disk space and will like to know what negative effect it will have on my sql database if i deleted the log files to free up space. this log files are captured from the past 3 years. Reply Subscribe RELATED TOPICS: Deleting log files which are a week old huge log files. Log files getting big   9 Replies Cayenne OP ScottKS Jul 5, 2013 at 11:00 UTC Whats your recovery method? Simple or Full? 0 Pimiento OP Fireshaker Jul 5, 2013 at 11:03 UTC 1st Post If you don´t need to recover anything you can delete de logs. If you have the logs in several files just delete de older ones and keep more recent, just in case. 0 Cayenne OP ScottKS Jul 5, 2013 at 11:04 UTC If your recovery method is full then those logs are your backups so definetly make sure that you back them up first! 0 Mace OP Gary D Williams Jul 5, 2013 at 11:15 UTC Sounds like the database needs a full backup with log truncation turned ON. 1 Jalapeno OP Peter3168 Jul 5, 2013 at 11:47 UTC It seems the OP is referring to the SQL Server error logs, rather than a transaction log for a database. If I'm right, you'll want to look at the sp_cycle_errorlog stored proc or look at this information: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/7760cbff-d2c4-4328-8184-739df2c04d6d/how-to-delete-error-logs-in-sql-serevr
and here http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/11/09/sql-server-recycle-error-log-create-new-log-file-without-server-restart If you are in fact talking about the transaction log file(s) for your database(s) then you'll probably want to follow the advice from the folks commenting before me(switching to SIMPLE), bearing in mind that if you are using SQL Server