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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2019-11-14
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Lists the job names and package names for jobs that execute SSIS packages (for packages stored in msdb).
2017-09-13 (first published: 2017-09-05)
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Finding the nightly job failures is just one of a DBA's morning rituals. It is fairly easy to scan all the email with a number of creative search criteria, but what if you would like a more automated approach? Read on to learn how to find and report all job failures using a script.
2017-01-12
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Your SQL Agent Jobs may be silently failing when using Linked Servers.
2016-05-02
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2016-04-28
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To show SQL Server and physical server details upon instance restart so that we have visibility of unexpected issues with servers and services.
2016-02-18 (first published: 2016-02-04)
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This script outputs sql server service, start type, status, Service Account, installation location, start up time, uptime of sql server related services along with startup trace flags.
2015-12-17 (first published: 2015-12-09)
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2015-11-10
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