Job history retention

Question

Hi,
I have job history setting like this:
I would like to see keep backup history for long time (this job setup last year). But I can only see job history earliest at 04/17 this year.
Does anyone have idea what happen to this job history? What  process can purge it? Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Have you checked anything runing to clear the history ?
USE msdb ;
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_purge_jobhistory
@job_name = N'NightlyBackups' ;
GO=======================
By Default this is set to 100. We have to modifying this to be 1000 or as per the requirment. USE [msdb]
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_set_sqlagent_properties @jobhistory_max_rows_per_job=1000
GOJob Execution progress :===========================
SELECT j.name, COUNT(*) Executions
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs j
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory h
ON j.job_id = h.job_id
GROUP BY j.name
ORDER BY Executions DESC
Follow this link for more details and configuration:=====================================================SQL Server Instance
SQL Server Agent
Right click on SQL Server Agent
Select the 'Properties' option
Select the 'History' page
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1269/missing-sql-server-agent-history/
Raju Rasagounder Sr MSSQL DBA