This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Elizabeth Noble. The subject chosen “what have you automated to make your life easier?” For me the topic is near and dear to my heart. I was honored to host T-SQL Tuesday #110 and had a similar topic. It was awesome to see peoples automation stories. That Read More …
SQL Server Agent Jobs are one of the core features of SQL Server. Agent Jobs perform many actions, from maintenance tasks (server and database), data movement flows, replication, log shipping, data cleanup, health checks and many more. Since Agent Jobs are a critical component in a data organization, it is important to know when Agent Read More …
Did you know it is possible for SQL Server Agent to alert you of problems if something goes haywire with your Agent? Have you ever had an issue with Alerts not being sent after critical events? Then you might need to configure the SQL Server Agent Fail-Safe Operator to save the day. A Fail-Safe WHAT Read More …
Deja Vu, back in March I saw a Tweet about the beta Microsoft Certification Exam DP-300. I work with Azure and Databases, so I thought to myself why not take an exam for a discounted price and see where my knowledge lies. Win Win, right!! The beta exam offers 80% discount on the exam fee. Read More …
If you are like me, you inherited variously configured SQL Servers when you took over as the DBA for your company. After almost two years, I have gotten all the standards in place where I feel that the environment is clean. One of the last things I accomplished was to standardize SQL Server Error Log Read More …
Recently, I was alerted to a network file share that was running low on disk space. This interesting as there was only one process that used this particular location to store SQL Backups. We have a nightly job that runs full copy only backups of a couple critical databases that are scrubbed and restored to Read More …
Do you run SQL Agent Jobs in your environment? Do you know what is running at any given time? Most people do not know what is currently running if you ask them. There are several times I need to know what job(s) is running on which server. For instance, let’s say on the morning of Read More …
Back in March I saw a Tweet about the beta Microsoft Certification Exam AZ-104 program was looking for 300 candidates to take the exam by May 31st. Since moving to my current job over a year ago I have been fully in an Azure shop. While I am a DBA for the most part, I Read More …
Recently I have been able to work with our development teams to not create new databases. There are several reasons for me making this request of the teams. The number one problem is that they were deployed with default settings and owners which I am not a fan. These things kill my OCD, but also Read More …
Are you a Microsoft SQL Server DBA managing one or more servers? Then you should know about the First Responder Kit from Brent Ozar Unlimited. This is a free set of tools that help you check the health of your SQL Servers. Are you aware of SQL Server configuration settings that differ on your servers Read More …
