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The default SQL Server log directory is full on my C drive. How does one move the SQL Server error log default directory?
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In SQL Server, you can move system and user databases by specifying the new file location in the FILENAME clause of the ALTER DATABASE statement. Data, log, and full-text catalog files can be moved in this way. This may be useful in the following situations: Failure recovery.
By default, the error log is located at Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL. n \MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG and ERRORLOG. n files.
Use the SQL Configuration Manager.
Here are the steps to change the startup to use a different directory. Once done restart server:
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In SSMS go to server properties and look for start up parameters. Right-click in object explorer, properties, then advanced.
The path is the "e" switch. Change and restart.
It can't be set in documented SQL commands :-)
Basically, it's in the registry as one of the parameters to the sqlservr.exe binary when run as a windows service
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