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Archives: August 2012
SQL Agent Alerts - Severity Condition is NOT "greater than or equal to"
I ran into some bad training that had convinced a client sys admin that the SQL Agent Alerts had the "greater than or equal to property."
As in, if I want to catch and notify an operator of all high severity errors 17 through 25, all I needed to do…
As in, if I want to catch and notify an operator of all high severity errors 17 through 25, all I needed to do…
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Posted in SQL Tact on 20 August 2012
Actual Emails: The Customer Doesn't Want Full Recovery Mode
Got this question in an email. I'll paraphrase.
William
Hoping you can advise me on best way to handle this.
My client doesn’t want to use SQL backups. Instead, they are using VM and a third party backup software by choice.
Without a DBA on staff, they would…
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Posted in SQL Tact on 16 August 2012