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from others in the community. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign 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 Safe way to truncate SQL Server Error Log up vote 10 down vote favorite 3 We are running out of space. What is how to run sp_cycle_errorlog 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 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 @Jo
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and here http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/11/09/sql-server-recycle-error-log-create-new-log-file-without-server-restaError 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 worki