Viewing the event log

[Bob Castleman]

I turned on trace flag 1204 and forced a deadlock on our test server. When I
try to view the output in the event log in the Enterprise Manager, double
clicking on the message brings up in a window with next and previous buttons
and I have click through multiple lines of output.

This is REALLY annoying. Is there a better way to view the eventlog?

Thanks,

Bob Castleman
SuccessWare Software

[Dan Guzman]

Consider opening the SQL Server error log with a text viewer like
Notepad. The error log is in the Log subfolder of the SQL Server
installation root folder.

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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

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"Bob Castleman" <nomail@here> wrote in message
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> I turned on trace flag 1204 and forced a deadlock on our test server.

When I

> try to view the output in the event log in the Enterprise Manager,

double

> clicking on the message brings up in a window with next and previous

buttons

> and I have click through multiple lines of output.
>
> This is REALLY annoying. Is there a better way to view the eventlog?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Castleman
> SuccessWare Software
>
>

[Bob Castleman]

Thanks.

Did not know it was a text file.

Bob

"Dan Guzman" <danguzman@nospam-earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Consider opening the SQL Server error log with a text viewer like
> Notepad. The error log is in the Log subfolder of the SQL Server
> installation root folder.
>
> --
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dan Guzman
> SQL Server MVP
>
> -----------------------
> SQL FAQ links (courtesy Neil Pike):
>
> [url]http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?DepartmentID=800[/url]
> [url]http://www.sqlserverfaq.com[/url]
> [url]http://www.mssqlserver.com/faq[/url]
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>
> "Bob Castleman" <nomail@here> wrote in message
> news:%231efH7YRDHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

> > I turned on trace flag 1204 and forced a deadlock on our test server.

> When I

> > try to view the output in the event log in the Enterprise Manager,

> double

> > clicking on the message brings up in a window with next and previous

> buttons

> > and I have click through multiple lines of output.
> >
> > This is REALLY annoying. Is there a better way to view the eventlog?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bob Castleman
> > SuccessWare Software
> >
> >

>
>