Jason,

Thanks for your input. I'm looking at the last option where i script the checkdb for each database then. I'm hoping the script will not be long - maybe a command like 'dbcc checkdb <databasename>' . I'll have to read up on 'job steps' and i hope the output will give me what i want - namely, the results of dbcc. I find it pretty surprising though that with all the elaborate tools that windows and studio manager comes with - that you can't easily send an email with output of dbcc. oh well, i'm naive. I have to get back to linux and mysql i suppose where i feel a bit more comfortable.