How would you go about finding jobs that have failed and why would you want to look for these? You might want to do this to ensure that you are being notified appropriately of job failures. For instance, after reviewing failed jobs, you may realize …
In the last post we found jobs that had no email notification. Once you find them, how do you fix this problem? I’m going to assume that database mail is already enabled and configured on the SQL Server instance. 1. Create an operator, assuming one …
When you take over a new SQL Server instance one of the things you might consider doing early on is finding SQL Agent jobs that have no email notification set up. These will be jobs that could fail and they will never alert anyone. I am of the …
If you are using Log Shipping, there have probably been times that you have discovered that the Log Shipping Secondary is not up to date. Perhaps you found out by right clicking on your SQL Server instance and running the performance dashboard …
Ever had a situation where a small in-house application written for a small group of employees needed some permissions in the database? How do you handle that? I want to walk through the scenario and provide three reasons that using a Database Role …
Sp_who and sp_who2 have been some very popular T-SQL commands. What if I told you that you could get more and better information from DMVs that have been around since SQL Server 2005? With the advent of SQL Server 2005 came along new objects called …
There are many consistently hot topics around SQL Server. One such topic is, “How does a DBA obtain the latest information on updates?” In this post, I will discuss three places that I frequent for information on SQL Server updates. The first link I …
You may occasionally have the need to relocate database files. What are some reasons that may prompt the need for this type of change? First, someone might have discovered that the database files are on the same drive as the operating system. For a …
Configuring the min and max server memory settings for SQL Server has a number of things to consider prior to making changes. Before we jump into those considerations, let’s learn what the min and max server memory options do. What does the min …
Ever come across a SQL Server that had 5, 10, or more individual logins for users in it? I have a few times and it made me wonder if whoever had done such a thing realized how much harder they were making the administration of the server by doing …