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us Database Administrators Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Database Administrators Stack Exchange is a question and answer site sql server error logs recycle 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 can ask a question sql server error logs too big 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 Stringer 31.6k572117 asked Jan 2 '13 at 15:21 aron 245137 add
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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 sp_cycle_errorlog only recycles ONE log file. But because there are 7 files, if you really want to purge them and save space
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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 Clearing SQL Server 2005 event log up http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/31298/safe-way-to-truncate-sql-server-error-log vote 1 down vote favorite I need to delete the SQL Server 2005 logs, but can't figure out how to do it. I'm talking about the logs that are found in Management -> SQL Server Logs in SSMS object explorer. I can't seem to detete them from there, so I assume there is another way or a command to do it. Also, I noticed that at least some log entries can be found in Windows Event Log (the ones about failed http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/14182/clearing-sql-server-2005-event-log logins, for example). Will those get deleted too if I find a way to clear the SQL Server logs? Or should I clear the event log separately? I looked for an answer but people seem to ask mostly about clearing transaction logs which is not what I need. sql-server-2005 logs share|improve this question asked Mar 1 '12 at 6:44 Dyppl 11615 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted Log files in question are named ERRORLOG, ERRORLOG1 etc. and are usually stored in LOG folder somewhere inside MSSQL installation directory. In the beginning of the log there is a message like this: Logging SQL Server messages in file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG' It can help to determine the exact path. If the need to delete these logs is caused by a security concern, it's good to execute sp_cycle_errorlog proc to make log cycle. This way the ERRORLOG file will be empty and all the events will be in ERRORLOG1, ERRROLOG2 etc which can be deleted at any time. share|improve this answer answered Mar 1 '12 at 7:48 Dyppl 11615 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote You can try the query: EXEC master.dbo.xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, 'Logging SQL Server messages in file', null, NULL, NULL, N'asc' The text column will provide you with the current location of your SQL error log file namely ERRORLOG. The currently used error log file cannot be deleted. Y
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 https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/355751-deleting-sql-log-files 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 sql server 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, sql server error 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/top