• My guess is that you have c2 auditing switched on. Run sp_configure and have a look at the value of the c2 auditing option.

    If it is on, you will need to find out why (SOX compliency perhaps) and what is required to be done with the files. Here we have to run weekly reports on the contents of those files.

    You can disable it with sp_configure if it isn't needed.

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