Like many others I'm trying to reduce the size of my HQ database. I'm using SQL 2008 Express so there is a 10gb database size limit. I'm currently at about 8.5gb. I have 16 stores reporting to this HQ server and about 17000 different SKUs. About a month ago I deleted completed worksheets older than 90 days through the headquarters administrator app. I also ran a dbcheck, dbshrink, and a dbcheck again. In the end the database was around 7gb.
I started looking around today using SSMS to see which table was taking up so much space. I have never had journals upload to the server which is usually a cause for this database to grow so quickly. I have come across the HQEventLog and it is presently at a data space of 3700.664mb. I've opened the table and its first entry goes back to May 2011. Does anyone know if it would be safe to delete entries in this table say >90 days old. I see it appears to record every connection from the stores to hq and all worksheet processing between the stores and hq as well. I usually use the Event Viewer in HQ Manager to determine errors on worksheets at store level and this is where the information from this table is stored.
My theory is it shouldn't have any adverse effects by me doing this but wanted to see if anyone else had done so already. I figured on running a db backup, then running a sql statement to delete entries in the table >90 days, run a db shrink, and then a db check hoping that this all goes smoothly and that this would help gain a bit of control over the size of this database.
Let me know what you all think.
Thanks,
Chris