Ever have someone leave the company only to find out that they own critical database processes… because that process failed? It hasn’t happened to me, yet, but a recent Active Directory outage this weekend got me thinking about it.
What is the Error Log?
SQL Server maintains its own error logs that contain messages describing informational and error events.
These are simple text files stored on disk, but it’s best to view them using the facilities provided by SQL Server to prevent any SQL operations from being blocked by opening one of these files in [...]