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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 this anywhere... sql-server error-log share|improve this question sql server error logs recycle 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 least to me) keep all log files, it will still keep only the current erro
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
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free download and it enables me to quickly find where the space is being consumed. Having run the tool, I quickly found the error logs in sql server 2008 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 http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/81388/does-sql-server-ever-delete-old-error-log-files 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 http://dbadiaries.com/sql-server-error-log-consuming-lots-of-disk-space 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 workin
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