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)
2009-09-04 (first published: 2008-02-05)
22,619 reads
TJay Belt
2009-04-01
5,003 reads
On-Call Duties
What are some of the on-call duties a DBA must perform? TJay Belt talks about them in this new article.
2008-10-27
5,720 reads
A Simple DR Solution
Tjay Belt brings us a quick and easy DR solution that might provide you some protection if you don't have a DR plan and want some lessons learned in this area.
2008-07-31
8,074 reads
Audit Database Changes in the Real World
Tjay Belt brings us a story of how auditing was actually implemented and a discussion of why particular decisions were made.
2008-06-11
8,755 reads
2008-03-27
4,851 reads
sp_GetBackupInfo
This will report all backup activity for all databases, sorted by date, so you see the last backup activity first. You can filter this one by a db name as well, and only see the backup info for said database.
2002-03-07
790 reads
sp_GetLastBackup
This will get the last date a database was backuped. It allows you to report this date on all databases on a server, or pass in a db name, and it'll report the date that db was last backed up
2002-03-07
431 reads
spAddField
spAddField is the proc I use to add all fields to the db in our upgrade scripts. With this proc, you pass it the tablename, fieldname, datatype, and null or not null. This will call spGetFieldsExists and see if the fields exists or not. If it does, spAddField will drop that column. Then it readds […]
2002-03-05
207 reads
spDropField
spDropField does exactly the opposite of spAddField. It checks for existence, then drops it, if it does exist.
2002-03-05
130 reads
Blogs
Welcome to 3Cloud …
By DataOnWheels
A little over a month ago, Pragmatic Works Consulting was a part of a...
Daily Coping 23 Oct 2020
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
One Thousand SQL Saturdays (*ish)
By Steve Jones
This weekend is SQL Saturday #1000, running virtually from Oregon. It’s a good schedule,...
Forums
Need help to form query to get missing month data
I want to know what are the customers having missing month data based on...
What would cause slow disk access on an AWS EBS SQL Server? (PAGELATCHIO_SH)
I have an EC2 instance (r5a.4xlarge) which should be able to do 2Gbps+ in...
What's Causing the Pushback with DevOps?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item What's Causing the Pushback with...
Ask SSC