It is often the case in large DBA teams where multiple DBAs can administer the same SQL Servers and it is not apparent to one DBA the importance of some of the jobs to another DBA. In this tip I show how you can be alerted of these changes.
2009-08-13
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Checking for SQL Server Agent jobs and their status is part of your daily task as a DBA. How do we use Windows PowerShell to check for SQL Server Agent jobs?
2009-07-28
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You may have a number of jobs scheduled and often there is the need to analyze the data to see which jobs are taking a long time or which job steps are taking a long time. As you add more jobs and overhead to the server these times become even more critical and analyzing the data is key.
2009-05-29
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Here is a stored procedure that start a job, and then waits until the jobs is finished
2009-06-02 (first published: 2009-05-14)
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In this tip I provide a script with a few parameters that need to be setup to configure and turn on both of these features.
2009-05-11
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This article introduces the reader to Powershell. The application that it demonstrates is one that monitors SQL Server Agent to make sure it is running.
2009-03-31
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In a recent blog post, SQL Server expert Denny Cherry discusses adding a user interface to his Standalone SQL Agent, a replacement for the SQL Server Agent service.
2009-03-17
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2009-06-01 (first published: 2009-03-13)
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I am trying to come up with a list of Job Schedules so I can make sure that my Jobs are staggered. Is there a way to query the system tables so I do not have to manually keep track of the schedules?
2008-11-21
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Monitoring your SQL Server Agent jobs is important to ensuring that all of the automation you have created on your server is working correctly. Thomas LaRock brings us another article on Operations Manager and its integration with SQL Server.
2008-09-08
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One of the nice things about the Microsoft Connector for Oracle is that it...
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