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| 2 | 3 | More > Monitoring ProblemOne read sql server error log of the issues I have is that the SQL xp_readerrorlog sql 2014 Server Error Log is quite large and it is not always easy to view the sp_readerrorlog in sql server 2012 contents with the Log File Viewer. In a previous tip "Simple way to find errors in SQL Server error log" you discussed a
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method of searching the error log using VBScript. Are there any other easy ways to search and find errors in the error log files? SolutionSQL Server 2005 offers an undocumented system stored procedure sp_readerrorlog. This SP allows you to read the contents of the SQL Server error log xp_readerrorlog 2014 files directly from a query window and also allows you to search for certain keywords when reading the error file. This is not new to SQL Server 2005, but this tip discusses how this works for SQL Server 2005. This is a sample of the stored procedure for SQL Server 2005. You will see that when this gets called it calls an extended stored procedure xp_readerrorlog. CREATE PROC [sys].[sp_readerrorlog]( read error logs on paticlar date Rate Topic Display Mode Topic Options Author Message Simha24Simha24 Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:16 AM SSC Journeyman Group: General Forum Members Last Login: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:45 AM Points: 94, Visits: 319 HiI wants to read error logs on this month https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1476/reading-the-sql-server-log-files-using-tsql/ 16th and 17th dates.Due to huge size of the error logs, How can i read my error logs as simple as possible.it is possible to read error logs on particluar date range with EXEC sys.xp_readerrorlog 0,1How can pass date range in above sp Post #1289572 anthony.greenanthony.green Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:18 AM SSCertifiable Group: General Forum Members Last Login: Thursday, September 1, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1289572-146-1.aspx 2016 2:56 AM Points: 5,969, Visits: 6,067 load the log into a temp table then do a query against the date columncreate table @errorlog (date, source, message)insert into @errorlog exec sp_readerrorlogselect * from @errorlog where date >= '' and date <= ''there is no way to pass in a paramater to the sp_readerrorlog that I know of, other than using the log viewer but that will read the log then filter it down which is the same as the above. 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Database https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/askjay/2011/10/10/searching-through-the-sql-server-errorlogs/ Features Monitor and Tune for Performance Server Performance and Activity Monitoring Server Performance and Activity Monitoring View the SQL Server Error Log (SQL Server Management Studio) View the SQL Server Error Log (SQL Server Management Studio) View the SQL Server Error Log (SQL Server Management Studio) Start System Monitor (Windows) Set Up a SQL Server Database sql server Alert (Windows) View the Windows Application Log (Windows) View the SQL Server Error Log (SQL Server Management Studio) Save Deadlock Graphs (SQL Server Profiler) Open, View, and Print a Deadlock File (SQL Server Management Studio) Save Showplan XML Events Separately (SQL Server Profiler) Save Showplan XML Statistics Profile Events Separately (SQL Server Profiler) TOC Collapse the table of content Expand the table of content This documentation is archived and is read error logs not being maintained. This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. View the SQL Server Error Log (SQL Server Management Studio) SQL Server 2016 Other Versions SQL Server 2014 SQL Server 2012  Updated: July 29, 2016Applies To: SQL Server 2016The SQL Server error log contains user-defined events and certain system events you will want for troubleshooting.How to view the logsIn SSMS, select Object ExplorerTo open Object Explorer: Keyboard shortcuy is F8. Or, on the top menu, click View/Object Explorer In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of the SQL Server and then expand that instance.Find and expand the Management section (Assuming you have permissions to see it).Right-click on SQL Server Logs, select View, and choose View SQL Server Log. The Log File Viewer will appear (It might take a minute) with a list of logs for you to view.Several people have recommended MSSQLTips.com's helpful post Identify location of the SQL Server Error Log file. They have a lot of terrific information - be sure to check them out! Community Additions ADD Show: Inherited Protected Print Export (0) Print Export (0) Share IN THIS ARTICLE Is this page helpful? Yes No Additional feedback? 1500 characters remaining Submit Skip this Thank you! We appreciate your feedback. Dev centers Windows O 10, 20110 Share 0 0 Sorry – It’s been a while since my last post. The past few months have been very busy for me. The other day, I had a brief discussion with a colleague on ways to search through all of the error logs in SQL Server. Obviously there are a few ways to do this – through PowerShell, simple Command/Batch Files, etc… Since I wrote an article on the parameters of xp_readerrorlog here: The Parameters of xp_readerrorlog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/askjay/archive/2010/09/19/the-parameters-of-xp-readerrorlog.aspx I thought I’d go ahead and extend that methodology in a new post. A few things on this first… This is nice for DBAs because it’s likely to use the skills a DBA is already familiar with – namely TSQL. It also runs from within SQL Server instead of running a PowerShell or Batch File script from within the shell. However, just to be clear – we have announced that Extended Stored Procedures are being deprecated in SQL Server 2008 R2. For more information on this: Deprecated Database Engine Features in SQL Server 2008 R2 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729.aspx Work going forward should be done using CLR stored procedures. I do not know whether or not we’ll be providing a CLR replacement for this out of the box. If not, it would be a fairly simple procedure to write. With xp_readerrorlog, we can only read 1 error log at time by using the first parameter to specify the file extension and the second to specify whether we wish to read the SQL Server Errorlog or the SQL Agent Errorlog. To read all the logs – we just need to loop through reading all the logs and load them into a table (or return multiple result sets if we are ok with this). Below is a script that does just this: if exists (select * from tempdb.sys.tables where name like ‘#Errorlog%') drop table #Errorlog; create table #ErrorLog ( LogDate datetime, ProcessInfo nvarchar(16), [Text] nvarchar(2048) ) go declare @p1 nvarchar(64); declare @p2 nvarchar(64); declare @logNum int; declare @NumErrorLogs int; -- add search conditions here select @p1 = null; select @p2 = null; -get the value of max errorlogs from registry exec master.dbo.xp_instance_regread N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', N'Software\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer', N'NumErrorLogs', @NumErrorLogs OUTPUT -- init counter set @logNum =
@p1 INT = 0,
@p2 INT = NULL,
@p3 VARCHAR(255) = NULL,
@p4 VARCHAR(255) = NULL)
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