How to find old emails received 3+ years ago?

Question

A few months back I was able search through old emails in my inbox and find emails from as far back as November 2011. Now when i search I can only go back as far as July 2012. These emails were not deleted, I am sure of that. So is there any way of finding these emails from Nov 2011 and if possible even further back? The farther back I can go the better.

Answer 1

If I need to find a deadlock last afternoon, how do I run sql query on System_health session to get it?
I need specific sql script.
I have already posted the query in this thread, but for you convenience here it is again:
SELECT
xed.value('@timestamp', 'datetime2(3)') as CreationDate,
xed.query('.') AS XEvent
FROM
SELECT CAST([target_data] AS XML) AS TargetData
FROM sys.dm_xe_session_targets AS st
INNER JOIN sys.dm_xe_sessions AS s
ON s.address = st.event_session_address
WHERE s.name = N'system_health'
AND st.target_name = N'ring_buffer'
) AS Data
CROSS APPLY TargetData.nodes('RingBufferTarget/event[@name="xml_deadlock_report"]') AS XEventData (xed)
ORDER BY CreationDate DESC
Note that since System Health writes to a ring buiffer, data is not available forever.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]