Once upon a time, you had one job, well actually two jobs. The first SQL Server agent job was important, the other was a test. You have decided you do not need the test agent job. Quick right-click on a job name, remove, confirm, done. When you refreshed the list, the test job was still […]
2021-02-02
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Once upon a time, you had one job, well actually two jobs. The first SQL Server agent job was important, the other was a test. You have decided you do not need the test agent job. Quick right-click on a job name, remove, confirm, done. When you refreshed the list, the test job was still […]
2021-02-02
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In this tutorial we will cover common questions related to the SQL Server msdb database. This is one of the standard system databases that are part of every SQL Server installation. This tutorial will give you a better idea of what the msdb database...
2020-12-29
In this tutorial we will cover common questions related to the SQL Server msdb database. This is one of the standard system databases that are part of every SQL Server installation. This tutorial will give you a better idea of what the msdb database.
2020-07-23
Is your msdb database growing bigger every day? If so you might want to consider purging some of the history records. Greg Larsen explains.
2017-01-04
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MSDB is a system database used by SQL Server. MSDB stores all sorts of data, such as backup history, log shipping monitor history, SSIS packages and Service Broker queue data to name a few. Just like user databases, MSDB needs regular maintenance, including index optimizations and, more importantly, regular purging. In this article, Tim Radney looks at how neglecting your MSDB can negatively impact on your environment.
2015-07-28
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Keep reading and you will see that there is another way to rebuild the msdb database without compromising the master database.
2015-07-02
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Sometimes you want to copy all the alerts that you've got set up on one server to add them to another
2016-04-06 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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I recently encountered a situation where the drive hosting Sharepoint Databases in a Staging environment ran out of space. I logged onto the server and found that the msdb database has itself occupied 38 GB of the total disk space. Msdb database generally contain maintenance information for the database such as backups, log shipping and so on.
2012-01-25
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This script has two essential Steps after restoring MSDB
2014-10-27 (first published: 2010-09-20)
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Introduction When you’re running MongoDB at scale with data distributed across multiple Pure Storage...
By Brian Kelley
If you're an attendee at the PASS Data Community Summit this year, there are...
By Steve Jones
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would...
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I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers