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Application.VacuumRetentionAge Property

Gets or sets the minimum age at which event and notification data is considered to be obsolete and available for removal.

Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Nmo
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo (in microsoft.sqlserver.smo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Property VacuumRetentionAge As TimeSpan
public TimeSpan VacuumRetentionAge { get; set; }
public:
property TimeSpan VacuumRetentionAge {
    TimeSpan get ();
    void set (TimeSpan value);
}
/** @property */
public TimeSpan get_VacuumRetentionAge ()

/** @property */
public void set_VacuumRetentionAge (TimeSpan value)
public function get VacuumRetentionAge () : TimeSpan

public function set VacuumRetentionAge (value : TimeSpan)

Property Value

A TimeSpan object that specifies the retention age.

Remarks

Updated text:5 December 2005

If you specify VacuumSchedules, you also can specify the data retention age.

Data is retained for the time span specified by the retention age, although it is not necessarily removed immediately upon expiration. When the data removal process runs, it attempts to delete event and notification data that is older than the retention age.

If you use the Application(Instance,String) constructor, the default value is 7 days, if you configure vacuuming. If you use the default constructor, you must set this property.

Example

The following examples show how to set all application execution settings, including the vacuum retention age:

// Define application execution settings
myApplication.QuantumDuration = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 15);
myApplication.PerformanceQueryInterval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 5);
myApplication.SubscriptionQuantumLimit = 1;
myApplication.ChronicleQuantumLimit = 1;
myApplication.VacuumRetentionAge = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 1);
myApplication.LogBeforeDeliveryAttempts = false;
myApplication.LogNotificationText = false;
myApplication.LogStatusInfo = false;
myApplication.EventThrottle = 500;
myApplication.NotificationThrottle = 500;
myApplication.SubscriptionThrottle = 500;
myApplication.ProcessEventsInOrder = false;
' Define application execution settings
myApplication.QuantumDuration = New TimeSpan(0, 0, 15)
myApplication.PerformanceQueryInterval = New TimeSpan(0, 0, 5)
myApplication.SubscriptionQuantumLimit = 1
myApplication.ChronicleQuantumLimit = 1
myApplication.VacuumRetentionAge = New TimeSpan(0, 0, 1)
myApplication.LogBeforeDeliveryAttempts = False
myApplication.LogNotificationText = False
myApplication.LogStatusInfo = False
myApplication.EventThrottle = 500
myApplication.NotificationThrottle = 500
myApplication.SubscriptionThrottle = 500
myApplication.ProcessEventsInOrder = False

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Microsoft Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

Target Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

See Also

Reference

Application Class
Application Members
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Nmo Namespace
VacuumSchedules

Other Resources

Configuring Data Removal
RetentionAge Element (ADF)