Remove old Error Logs

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Remove old Error Logs

jploggie

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November 15, 2019 at 7:46 pm

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Im a junior data support analyst and trying to select records from a table with the column ErrorDate and identifying records older than 6 months to delete those records and potentially create a stored procedure; at a minimum, establish a query on our local Wiki to run every 6 months. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Date format for column is YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS.XXX.

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Site Owners SSC Guru Points: 80330 More actions · Answer 1

Thanks for posting your issue and hopefully someone will answer soon.

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heb1014 Hall of Fame Points: 3790 More actions · Answer 2

Try something like this:

delete from dbo.test2 
where KeyColumn in (
select t.KeyColumn 
from dbo.test2 t 
where t.ErrorDate <= DATEADD(month,-6,getdate())
)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004284 More actions · Answer 3

BEFORE YOU DELETE ANYTHING, MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BACKUPS ARE WORKING CORRECTLY AND THAT YOU CAN RESTORE TO A POINT IN TIME!!!!!

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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