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posting ads with us Database Administrators Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Database Administrators Stack Exchange is a question sql server 2000 error logs 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 up Here's how it works: Anybody sql server error logs recycle 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 files at all. Can't seem to find an answer to
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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| 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, in the event you changed the number of error logs SQL Server keeps. The max, I believe, is 99. But no matter what your current setting is, it will eventually recycle and purge old files. I tested this and, if you uncheck the box that says: ☐ Limit the number of error log files before they are recycled ...which implies (at l
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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 up Here's how http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/81388/does-sql-server-ever-delete-old-error-log-files 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 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 http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/31298/safe-way-to-truncate-sql-server-error-log 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 @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
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 https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/355751-deleting-sql-log-files 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 http://sqlmag.com/blog/how-prevent-enormous-sql-server-error-log-files 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 sql server 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 sql server error 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-safely-delete-archive-ldf-files Same scenario has been discussed here. 0 Cayenne OP ScottKS Jul 9, 2013 at 11:26 UTC JP83 wrote: Hi ScottKS, SQL server offers a faciliServer 2016 SQL Server 2014 SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2008 AdministrationBackup and Recovery Cloud High Availability Performance Tuning PowerShell Security Storage Virtualization DevelopmentASP.NET Entity Framework T-SQL Visual Studio Business IntelligencePower BI SQL Server Analysis Services SQL Server Integration Services SQL Server Reporting Services InfoCenters Advertisement Home > Blogs > SQL Server Questions Answered > How to prevent enormous SQL Server error log files SQL Server Questions Answered How to prevent enormous SQL Server error log files Aug 19, 2011 by Paul S. Randal in SQL Server Questions Answered RSS EMAIL Tweet Comments 0 Question: Some of the SQL Server instances I manage routinely have extremely large (multiple gigabytes) error logs because they are rebooted so infrequently. Trying to open an error log that large is really problematic. Is there a way that the error logs can be made smaller? Answer: I completely sympathize with you. Very often when dealing with client systems we encounter similar problems. Thankfully there is an easy solution. (See also, "Choosing Default Sizes for Your Data and Log Files" and "Why is a Rolled-Back Transaction Causing My Differential Backup to be Large?"). The number of error logs is set to 6 by default, and a new one is created each time the server restarts. Old ones are renamed when a new one is created and the oldest is deleted. As you’ve noticed, this can lead to extremely large error log files that are very cumbersome to work with. There is a registry setting ‘NumErrorLogs’ that controls the number of error log files to keep in the LOG directory. This can easily be changed through Management Studio. In Object Explorer for the instance, navigate to Management then SQL Server Logs. Right-click and select Configure as shown below. This brings up the Configure SQL Server Error Logs dialog. Check the ‘Limit the number of error log files before they are recycled’ box and set your desired number of files – I usually choose 99. See the screenshot below. This doesn’t solve the size problem, but does mean that more error logs will be kept around. To solve the size problem, create a SQL Server Agent job that executes at some point every day and runs the command EXEC sp_cycle_errorlog; GO This causes a new error log file to be created and will prevent the error log becoming overly large on systems that do not reboot for a long time. Print reprints Favorite EMAIL Tweet paulrandal's blog Log In or Register