Anti Virus Exclusions for Computers Running IRIS SQL Server

Article ID

ias-11807

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Created Date

23rd September 2014

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Problem

When you configure your antivirus software settings, make sure that you exclude the following files or directories (as applicable) from virus scanning. Doing this improves the performance of the files and helps make sure that the files are not locked when the SQL Server service must use them.

Resolution

As well as excluding the IRIS program folder from being scanned it is also neccesary to exclude the following SQL Processes from virus scanning C:ProgramFilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.\MSSQL\Binn\SQLServr.exe Files to exclude from virus scanning C:ProgramFilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.\MSSQL\DATAIRIS.mdf Files to exclude from virus scanning C:ProgramFilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.\MSSQL\DATA\IRIS.ldf For full details and general guidelines to help you decide which kind of antivirus software to run on computers that are running Microsoft SQL Server can be found here

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