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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 Does SQL Server ever delete old error log files? up vote 11 down vote favorite I sp_cycle_errorlog best practice 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 asked Oct 29 '14 at 14:36 tuseau 5554916 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 delete sql server logs archive 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 16.8k53171 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 error log file plus 6 backups. If you've changed the registry key that @RLF pointed out, the registry key setting overrides (as if you hadn't unchecked the box), but you're still going to be limited to some number of backup error log files between 6 and 99. So the short answer is: yes, in all cases, SQL Server will eventually get around to deleting old error log files. share|improve this answer edited Oct 29 '14 at 15:15 answered Oct 29 '14 at 14:42 Aaron Bertrand♦ 114k14196337 add
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to delete Error Logs or SQL Server logs which are older.How should I do that? Please provide me the solution........Chetan Anil Patil SQL DBA Monday, January 24, http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/81388/does-sql-server-ever-delete-old-error-log-files 2011 6:16 AM Reply | Quote Answers 1 Sign in to vote Use sp_cycle_agent_errorlogfor SQLAgent logBalmukund Lakhani | Please mark solved if I've answered your question, vote for it as helpful to help other user's find a solution quicker -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/7760cbff-d2c4-4328-8184-739df2c04d6d/how-to-delete-error-logs-in-sql-serevr?forum=sqldatabaseengine My Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/blakhani Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverfaq Marked as answer by WeiLin QiaoModerator Monday, January 31, 2011 10:37 AM Friday, January 28, 2011 8:06 AM Reply | Quote Moderator All replies 0 Sign in to vote Take a look at sp_cycle_errorlog system stored procedure in the BOLBest Regards, Uri Dimant SQL Server MVP http://dimantdatabasesolutions.blogspot.com/ http://sqlblog.com/blogs/uri_dimant/ Proposed as answer by Yogesh Ranade Monday, January 24, 2011 6:21 PM Monday, January 24, 2011 6:22 AM Reply | Quote Answerer 0 Sign in to vote As Uri Said cycling the error log will remove older entries, I generally like to keep about 6 -12months worth of log, so I set the number of log files to 12 and a monthly job to cycle the log. Entries older than a year are then removedGethyn Ellis blog: http://www.gethynellis.com/ Monday, January 24, 2011 10:47 AM Reply | Quote 0 Sign in to vote Agree with Gethyn Ellis to keep min 6 and max 12. I generally keep 9 andwe
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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://communit