This is one of the handy script to get sql server error logs via email.
declare @Time_Start datetime; declare @Time_End datetime; set @Time_Start=getdate()-2; set @Time_End=getdate(); create table #ErrorLog (logdate datetime , processinfo varchar(255) , Message varchar(max) ) insert #ErrorLog (logdate, processinfo, Message) EXEC master.dbo.xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, null, null , @Time_Start, @Time_End, N'desc'; create table #SQL_Log_Errors ( [logdate] datetime, [Message] varchar (500) ) insert into #SQL_Log_Errors select LogDate, Message FROM #ErrorLog where (Message like '%err%' or Message like '%warn%' or Message like '%kill%' or Message like '%dead%' or Message like '%cannot%' or Message like '%could%' or Message like '%fail%' or Message like '%not%' or Message like '%stop%' or Message like '%terminate%' or Message like '%bypass%' or Message like '%roll%' or Message like '%truncate%' or Message like '%upgrade%' or Message like '%victim%' or Message like '%recover%' or Message like '%critical%' or Message like '%IO requests taking longer than%') AND Message not like '%errorlog%' AND Message not like '%dbcc%' AND Message not like '%checkdb%' order by logdate desc drop table #ErrorLog declare @cnt int select @cnt=COUNT(1) from #SQL_Log_Errors if (@cnt > 0) begin declare @strsubject varchar(100) declare @oper_email nvarchar(100) set @oper_email = (select email_address from msdb.dbo.sysoperators where name = 'DBA') select @strsubject='There are errors in the SQL Error Log on ' + @@SERVERNAME declare @tableHTML nvarchar(max); set @tableHTML = N'<H1>SQL Error Log Errors - ' + @@SERVERNAME + '</H1>' + N' <table border="1">' + N' <tr> <th>Log Date</th> ' + N' <th>Message</th> </tr> ' + CAST ( ( SELECT td = [logdate], '', td = [Message] FROM #SQL_Log_Errors FOR XML PATH('tr'), TYPE ) AS NVARCHAR(MAX) ) + N'</table> ' ; EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @from_address='', @recipients= @oper_email, @subject = @strsubject, @body = @tableHTML, @body_format = 'HTML', @profile_name='YourProfileName' end drop table #SQL_Log_Errors go
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Ramasankar Molleti