Add SQL Writer log to capture for SQL IaaS #272
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Thanks @PhilB-MSFT |
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Hey @axelgMS - by default (and I don't recall ever seeing them changed!) they are a maximum 1 MB each and SQL Writer will cycle them. |
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A new log introduced by SQL Server 2019 (15.x) to provide better visibility on its SQLWriter operations. This functionality was also made available in SQL Server 2016 (13.x) Service Pack 3, and SQL Server 2017 (14.x) Cumulative Update (CU) 27.
Azure Backup for VM and Azure Site Recovery use VSS for backups and therefore including this file will help with investigation of these types of cases with the collection of the logs and not needing to ask the customer to provide the data thereby speeding up case resolution.
The file paths are fixed regardless of SQL Server version to:
I believe my wildcard (e.g. copy,/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/90/Shared/SqlWriterLogger*.txt) will find either/both of these files if they exist.