Personal Weblog of John Wood » errorlog http://www.webofwood.com Wordpress weblog of John Wood, a Database Administrator Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:18:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Cycle Those SQL Server Logs http://www.webofwood.com/2010/02/15/cycle-those-sql-server-logs/ http://www.webofwood.com/2010/02/15/cycle-those-sql-server-logs/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:21:04 +0000 John Wood http://www.webofwood.com/?p=62 Don’t you just hate it when you open one of your server logs in Management Studio and then you have to wait forever to review it because it never stops reading? I’ve done it enough times and decided to put an end to it or at least greatly reduce the incidence.

Using Powershell and a simple script to execute Sp_Cycle_Errorlog, I now have a weekly, Windows scheduled task which executes the sproc to cycle the logs for all my SQL Servers.

foreach ($svr in get-content D:\Scripts\Servers.TXT ){
    $svr
    Invoke-Expression 'SQLCMD -E -S $svr -Q "Exec Sp_Cycle_Errorlog"' | Out-Null
	}
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