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Eirikur Eiriksson

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September 9, 2018 at 7:29 am

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Sal Young Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 567 More actions · Answer 1

This is a promising script but I'm having some issues.

If there are other file(s) or folder(s) in the drive that match the pattern "ERRORLOG" it may go to that folder instead of the location to the SQL error log files
After renaming the other ERRORLOG folder, i still got the following message which I'm not sure if the script is working as expected

The current system date and time:
Tue 09/11/2018- 7:39:57.12
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Operating system:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.228]
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Testing Error Search: FINDSTR /I /R /G:"C:\TSES_V02\TEST_SEARCH.txt" "C:\Program*"
This should match once in every log file.
[Failed] Test string not found.
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Severity Level 10 ( Memory )
No Severity Level 10 ( Memory ) errors found.
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Severity Level 10 ( Disk )
No Severity Level 10 ( Disk ) errors found.
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Severity Level 11
No Severity Level 11 errors found.
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Severity Level 12
No Severity Level 12 errors found.
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Severity Level 13
No Severity Level 13 errors found.
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Severity Level 14
No Severity Level 14 errors found.
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Severity Level 16 (Backup)
No Severity Level 16 (Backup) errors found.
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Severity Level 16 (Restore)
No Severity Level 16 (Restore) errors found.
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Severity Level 17
No Severity Level 17 errors found.
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Severity Level 18
No Severity Level 18 errors found.
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Severity Level 19
No Severity Level 19 errors found.
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Severity Level 20
No Severity Level 20 errors found.
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Severity Level 21
No Severity Level 21 errors found.
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Severity Level 22
No Severity Level 22 errors found.
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Severity Level 23
No Severity Level 23 errors found.
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Severity Level 24
No Severity Level 24 errors found.
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[font="Verdana"]Sal Young[/font]
[font="Verdana"]MCITP Database Administrator[/font]

Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 2

Just read through this. Very good stuff. I've unwillingly become a part-time accidental DBA at work and deal with a my share of failing SQL instances. This will be good stuff to have in my back pocket.

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182911 More actions · Answer 3

Sal Young - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 6:53 AM
This is a promising script but I'm having some issues.
If there are other file(s) or folder(s) in the drive that match the pattern "ERRORLOG" it may go to that folder instead of the location to the SQL error log files
After renaming the other ERRORLOG folder, i still got the following message which I'm not sure if the script is working as expected
The current system date and time:
Tue 09/11/2018- 7:39:57.12
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Operating system:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.228]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing Error Search: FINDSTR /I /R /G:"C:\TSES_V02\TEST_SEARCH.txt" "C:\Program*"
This should match once in every log file.
[Failed] Test string not found.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Severity Level 10 ( Memory )
No Severity Level 10 ( Memory ) errors found.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Severity Level 10 ( Disk )
No Severity Level 10 ( Disk ) errors found.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Severity Level 11
No Severity Level 11 errors found.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Severity Level 12
No Severity Level 12 errors found.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Severity Level 13
No Severity Level 13 errors found.
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Severity Level 14
No Severity Level 14 errors found.
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Severity Level 16 (Backup)
No Severity Level 16 (Backup) errors found.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Severity Level 16 (Restore)
No Severity Level 16 (Restore) errors found.
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Severity Level 17
No Severity Level 17 errors found.
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Severity Level 18
No Severity Level 18 errors found.
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Severity Level 19
No Severity Level 19 errors found.
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Severity Level 20
No Severity Level 20 errors found.
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Severity Level 21
No Severity Level 21 errors found.
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Severity Level 22
No Severity Level 22 errors found.
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Severity Level 23
No Severity Level 23 errors found.
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Severity Level 24
No Severity Level 24 errors found.
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Haven't come across this situation, the assumption is that the patterns in the file C:\TSES_V02\TEST_SEARCH.txt will identify the error log files, neither the location of the files nor the file names.
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Can you run the script again in verbose mode and ping back the output?

Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182911 More actions · Answer 4

Alan.B - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7:35 AM
Just read through this. Very good stuff. I've unwillingly become a part-time accidental DBA at work and deal with a my share of failing SQL instances. This will be good stuff to have in my back pocket.

Hi Alan,
it's very handy and one can have a non-sql server person(s) such as sysadmins running this and returning the output, very helpful in environments where it's hard to obtain sysadmin access to the servers.
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