Query Windows Event Log within SQL Server

• SQLdba-473999

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  March 4, 2010 at 10:36 am

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  Does anyone know of a SQL stored procedure that queries the Windows Event Log?

  I currently have a daily job that gathers SQL logs for all servers/instances (exec master.dbo.xp_readerrorlog). I would like to do the same for the Windows Event Log, that way I don't have to login to each server and review manually.

  I have searched and found nothing so far.

• Welsh Corgi

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  March 4, 2010 at 12:06 pm

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  I do not know of an extended procedure that does this.

  Do you want to perform this action for SQL Server of from a Windows Script?

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280386.aspx

  http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3562406/SQL-Server-2005---SQL-Server-Integration-Services---Part-12---Logging.htm

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• SQLdba-473999

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  March 4, 2010 at 12:12 pm

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  I want to execute it within an SSIS job.

• andrewkane17

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  March 9, 2010 at 2:40 pm

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  I used to use logparser from MS (you can search for its use on this forum) and this worked fine, but although you can build a query to limit what is returns, in my case records I already had based on date, is still took as long to return partial data as the whole log.

  I have switched to using DumpEvt detailed in this article http://www.sql-server-performance.com/articles/per/event_logs_dumpevt_p2.aspx This keeps a tally on the last records collected and is a lot faster, you could run the N number of minutes to collect all the servers logs.

  Andrew

• SQLdba-473999

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  March 9, 2010 at 2:42 pm

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  Thank you for the info. I will look into this.

• webrunner

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  September 25, 2020 at 6:20 pm

  #3791003

  I know this is an old post, but figured I should add another approach that I found and will at least test out and may implement in production.

  https://rcmtech.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/send-windows-event-logs-to-sql-database/

  HTH

   

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