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SQL Server Logs too

  • September 27, 2008 at 1:00 am

    #193338

    My backup fails in maintenance plan and the worse part of it I can't open my sql error logs to see what is the problem, they are too big something like 2 gbs.how can I partition these logs to make them small and easy to open

    Thanks

  • September 27, 2008 at 3:53 am

    #878058

    You could try using a text editor (a good one). Notepad++, ultraedit, etc

    You can cycle the error log and SQL will start a new one, then you can read the new log.

    exec sp_cycle_errorlog

    Gail Shaw
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  • September 28, 2008 at 7:44 am

    #878162

    You should set your maintenance plans to log, they can do this in text files and don't necessarily need to send to the SQL Server error logs.

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