Michael,

when the statement is timing out you have two options:

• either you try to enter Sebastians code as long as it works (I guess that some records get deleted every time and somewhen it is done)
• or you reduce the amount of records to delete by adding a date range condition.

For the second option, you could try to delete all records in the first half year of 2014 by

DELETE FROM {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}EventLog WHERE LogCreateDate BETWEEN CONVERT(date, '2014-01-01') AND CONVERT(date, '2014-06-30')

If this works, change the dates and delete the second half year of 2014, etc., otherwise take only the first quarter.

To determine how many records are in a specific time range, you can use:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {databaseOwner}{objectQualifier}EventLog WHERE LogCreateDate BETWEEN CONVERT(date, '2014-01-01') AND CONVERT(date, '2014-06-30')

Happy DNNing!
Michael

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It loaded  very well  into  the SQL under Host - Script ran successfully- actually in a matter of seconds,  but the date .log.resources files are still intact...so is this a different log file I need to delete?  And do I now run the DBCC Shrinkdatabase per Michael T's  post (a few back)? 

Thanks guys! 

 

you may safely delete any log FILES, important errors are logged in the database, .log.resources files inside /providers/dataproviders/sqldataprovider should not be large and contain upgrade results.
if you need to compact the database, run
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE 0
inside Host > SQL.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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