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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 vote accepted You can cycle the error log by calling how to run sp_cycle_errorlog 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 of these files will be shrunk: ErrorLog ErrorLog.1 ErrorLog.2 ErrorLog.3 ErrorLog.4 ErrorLog.5 ErrorLog.6 –Digs Mar 18 '14 at 13:07 add a comm
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the Community! Creating your account only takes a few minutes. Join Now Hello All, My SQL database has generated very large log files of the primary data or log file cannot be removed from a database. 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. http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/31298/safe-way-to-truncate-sql-server-error-log 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 https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/355751-deleting-sql-log-files 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 2008 or later, log truncation is deprecated and instead you'll want to explore methods of keeping t-logs manageable, such as regular Full/Diff/Tlog backups. 5 Poblano OP DaintyDap Jul 6, 2013 at 1:19 UTC Hi Terver, A related post here might help you on how safe it is to delete sql log files. http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/276136-how-to-safto delete it to free space on my hard drive. Can the SQL Server ErrorLog file be safely deleted without harming SQL Server?By http://fkauffmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-safely-delete-sql-server.html default SQL Server stores seven ErrorLog files named: ErrorLog ErrorLog.1 ErrorLog.2 ErrorLog.3 ErrorLog.4 ErrorLog.5 ErrorLog.6 In SQL Server 2005 and later versions, the ErrorLog files are stored in the c:\Program Files\Microsoft http://dbadiaries.com/sql-server-error-log-consuming-lots-of-disk-space SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG folder. The ErrorLog file contains the newest information; the ErrorLog.6 file contains the oldest information. Every time SQL Server is restarted, the log files cycle as follows: All data sql server 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 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 sql server 2008 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 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) direc
Error Log Consuming Lots of Disk Space June 17, 2012 by Andy Hayes Leave a Comment I came across a problem this week with one of our SQL Servers whereby one of the drives was very low on space. Whenever I come across a disk space problem, I use my trusty friend Treesize which is a free download and it enables me to quickly find where the space is being consumed. Having run the tool, I quickly found the culprit. It was the SQL Server error log consuming gigabytes of disk space. Thankfully this is relatively easy to resolve. Here are my notes….. Where is the SQL Server Error Log? Typically inside the "Log" directory of your SQL Server instance so for example on my laptop it is here. C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLSERVER2012\MSSQL\Log Recycle the SQL Server Error Log using sp_cycle_errorlog You can view the logs and their contents in Management Studio by accessing the "Management" node and by either double clicking or right clicking the logs So in order to get my disk space back, I ran a stored procedure called sp_cycle_errorlog which will create you a new log and move the old log to a new file called ErrorLog.1 inside your error log directory. sp_cycle_errorlog is installed with SQL Server. Each time you run this command, a new log is created and the existing logs are cycled until the max number of allowed error logs is reached. So you get ErrorLog.1, ErrorLog.2 etc in your log directory. When the max logs is reached, the oldest file is removed. I decided that I did not want to keep the logs as this was a development server and I was aware of what messages were consuming the space. For a production server, you may want to harvest the logs onto another drive before running sp_cycle_errorlog to completely remove the log files. You can adjust the number of log files to be retained, the minimum is 6 and the maxium is 99 and this can be configured by right clicking the SQL Server Logs node and choosing the configure option. For more information on sp_cycle_errorlog, you can visit this link Related PostsUsing sp_who2 to help with SQL Server troubleshootingUsing DBCC INPUTBUFFER for SQL Server troubleshooting10 Database Performance Monitoring Tools You Can Get For FreeHow to Kill All MySQL Processes For a Specific UserHow to List CPU Usage Per Database in SQL Server Filed Under: Administration Tagged With: sql server, troubleshooting About Andy HayesAndy Hayes is a DBA working with SQL Server since version 7.0. He has a wonderful wife and two beautiful children. He loves database technology, playi