The Hidden Impact of Microsoft Defender for Azure SQL
A problem with the configuration of Microsoft Defender caused all activity on the server to get delayed.
2023-07-28
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Better SQL Server Agent Job Failure Monitoring
SQL Server Agent has a built-in alerting process for when jobs fail, but the information it provides isn’t very useful. You’re only told which job, what time, who ran it, and which step failed. If you want to see why it failed, you have to review the job history manually. On a busy system with […]
2020-10-29
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Connecting to SQL Server with MuleSoft AnyPoint 3.9
I usually write about SQL Server, but I thought I'd share my experience of using SQL Server from MuleESB. If you haven't used Mule before, it's an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus), which also has a paid-for Enterprise version. I've been using it since 2015 and have been impressed with how quickly we can create […]
2020-10-23
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The Last Good DBCC Run
I want to check when DBCC CHECKDB was last run on my Baseball database. What code should I use?
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