Find SQL Server error log file

Whenever you sit to troubleshoot any problem, you always need to look at error log file. There are quite a few different way to find out where error log of SQL Server resides but there is one of the simplest and easy way I used to use always is undocumented method serverproperty(‘errorlogfilename’)

All you need to run is, just following one statement and you will find full path of ErrorLogFile, which you can open in standard text editor.

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ErrorLogFileName')

Reference: Ritesh Shah
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