I have sent article part 4 to SQLServerCentral. It may be weeks before it is published though, so I have also published it at thebuddingdba.com. This part is an indepth...

Hi Gary,

I'm guessing that the reason this is happening is because one of your jobs has never been run, or under last_run_time/date there is something other than dates such as...

gary.dunn (5/7/2009)

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Hi Nick, I thought we tried that and it didn't work. I tried it again and now it works?! I must've been doing something wrong. Next...

Fair enough. Here are the last_run_outcomes:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187387.aspx

I hope to finish article 4 tonight. Thanks for joining in and the feedback.

Drew

gary.dunn (4/30/2009)

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Thanks Drew, we're looking forward to the new articles.

Quick question: We have set up links to several servers that just have the default instance installed and it works great...however,...

Hi

Are you...

Hi Gary,

I'll try and finish the next three articles this weekend and publish them on my site thebuddingdba.com, Monday. I'll send them off to SQLServerCentral.com but I think there is...

Was going to do it in article 5, but people are getting restless, so going to...

Hi all,

There appears to be a dead image in the article, so I've posted the image here. This is what our Failed Jobs report will eventually look like. It has...

michaelberry67 (4/22/2009)

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...you got me very interested. Looking forward to you finishing this article and wish you all the best in completing it. I was about to start something...

Roger L Reid (4/22/2009)

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Drew, the thing that confuses me about sites like the one you describe - which I know are perfectly common - is how they manage the licensing...

tjmcols (4/21/2009)

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I have created a few SQL Reporting Services reports for my daily DBA tasks but keep adding servers (dev and stage) that I want to check. So this...

Marios Philippopoulos (4/20/2009)

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Drew,

Thanks for the article. Looking forward to the upcoming installments.

When I first saw the title of your article, I actually thought it was about using Microsoft System Center...

I'm glad there's been interest. Got to admit, I was a bit anxious with it being my first article and all.

Andrew Peterson (4/20/2009)

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Step One - get a server.

Most people need...

shawn.melton (4/20/2009)

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What is the minimum editions required of SQL and Visual Studio?

Being only a VBScript person and not a full blown .NET programmer (I can read it but not really...