Tag: Error Log

  • DBA Scripts: Get Error Log Patterns

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting Group the Error Log Instead of Scrolling It The SQL Server error log is where the instance tells you what’s wrong, but on a busy server it’s also where hundreds of routine startup, backup, and checkpoint messages bury the handful…

  • DBA Scripts: Get Recent Error Log Entries

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Performance & Troubleshooting The SQL Server error log records almost everything worth knowing about an instance’s recent health, and almost nobody reads it until they’re already troubleshooting something. It’s not that the information isn’t there, it’s that xp_readerrorlog returns thousands of lines dominated…

  • DBA Scripts: Get Schema Change History

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    🔧Part of the DBA-Tools Project, copy/paste SQL Server scripts and health checks.In: Server & Configuration “What Changed on This Server Recently?” That question comes up after almost every unexpected behavior change: a query that used to work now errors, a report that used to return data now doesn’t, a job that used to succeed now…