Event Notifications Example

Event notifications are kinda like a trigger in the sense that they respond to specific event, specifically in response to DDL statements and SQL Trace events.

The major difference between...

What SQL Server Agent Alerts Do I have setup?

I am in a situation where I have to incorporate SQL Server Agent alerts in my monitoring and alerting strategy.I needed a query (DMV) to get details on what...

Finding out the most cached database in the buffer cache - The DMV Way

While there are many ways and criteria to find out what database is the most used, under optimized, trouble maker etc....., here is one more to find out the...

A simple powershell script to look up server hardware and OS information

This is a simple powershell script to query and display hardware and OS information from a remote computer.It uses CIM (Common Information Model) that is available since Powershell version...

Get email alert when number of queries waiting for CPU exceeds thresold

You may have situations where the CPU % usage is well below the alert threshold but still queries are running slow because they are waiting for CPU to be...

Powershell one liner to export data directly from SQL Server to Excel

Most of the times I use the CSV files whenever I need to import or export SQL Server data. And then if I need to do further analysis on...

SQL Server Metadata using Powershell

If you are new at your job or a new client you would like to gather and review the sql server meta data to understand the environment and get...

Powershell script to get list of databases on a server

At one of my clients I received an email from one of the IT Project Managers asking a simple question:"Can you please let us know which databases reside on...

Powershell script to find SQL Server instances on remote servers

This is actually part 2 of a process I am creating to automatically discover SQL Server instances in an Active Directory domain. So there will be a series of...

Find clustered index on non primary key columns

First, some blah... blah... blah...

By default when a primary key constrained is created on a table/view,  SQL Server automatically creates a unique clustered in order to enforce it.  And...