Trace Flag 3659

Many setup scripts for SQL Server include the 3659 trace flag, but I could not find official documentation that explains exactly what this flag means. After a lot of research, I found a reference to this flag in a script called AddSelfToSqlSysadmin, written by Ward Beattie, a developer in the SQL Server product group at Microsoft. The script contains a line which suggests that this flag enables logging all errors to errorlog during server startup. [Read More]