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Checking the Job Status on Multiple Servers

Keeping track of the jobs you have running across all your servers can be a challenge these days with fewer and fewer employees. New author Sivakumar Mahalingam brings us an article that shows one way to accomplish this task.

Happy Labor Day 2009

It's a holiday in the US and Steve Jones takes a day off with a blooper reel for the editorial.

Happy Labor Day 2009

It's a holiday in the US and Steve Jones takes a day off with a blooper reel for the editorial.

Migrating down in SQL Server

In this edition of the SQL Server Mailbag, database expert Denny Cherry tackles reader questions dealing with concerns over downgrading from SQL Server Enterprise to Standard edition, installing SSIS on a second server and more.

SQL Server Security Audit (Part 3) - Operating System Level Audit

The final part of the Security Audit series examines how to secure the Windows Server operating system.

A Failed Jobs Monitoring System

One DBA's tale of how to monitor jobs for failure and ensure that the DBA is alerted to the fact that there is a problem. (from Feb 2008)

Getting started with SQL Server Management Objects (SMO)

In this tip, I am going to discuss how you can get started with SMO and how you can programmatically manage a SQL Server instance with your choice of programming language.

How practical is a netbook?

I’ve I was having lunch with another SQL Geek and we were talking about netbooks and how practical they are....

Implementing a SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse

This paper defines a reference configuration model (known as SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse) and a CPU core-balanced approach to implementing a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP)-based SQL Server data warehouse with proven performance and scalability expectations for sequential I/O data workloads.