Please take some time and put in the effort yourself. Our community will gladly help you with any specific issues. You are being unreasonable in expecting someone else to do...

Is it ironic that I am too scared to answer this question?

I only have a 2012 instance available. It does exactly what I thought on it. 2014? With or without...

Have you checked that the command runs properly from SQL Agent?

Have you used another method to test that the alert script is run?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/12/2016)

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Gary Varga (5/12/2016)

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Jeff Moden (5/23/2012)

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I so often see people working in IT fail to take advantage of all the tools we have to automate much...

Whenever dealing with permissions on a database or domain basis then it has always been easiest when using roles/groups. People move jobs but should not retain permissions from their previous...

Jeff Moden (5/23/2012)

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Gosh... I think the...

Often true but a lot of benefit can be attained by automating little by little. Perhaps,...

majorbloodnock (5/23/2012)

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...Indispensable equals risk, and companies don't like that, so will attempt to reduce the risk so it's manageable. If that means reducing their capabilities in the process, well that's...

I have found myself too far away from technology in the last 5 years but fortunately not quite management. I need to spend time back on the programming keyboard and...

From what I can see, there is little support for SQL standards. This is not a good thing.

There should be tooling and warnings in some form.

In what way is it not working? Silently? Error message? etc.

Doctor Who 2 (5/10/2016)

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...Please don't get me wrong, everyone I've had the pleasure of working with in this current job, is nice. But I feel no particular affinity towards any...

I changed from always putting stuff off to doing a lot of things through a lot of gradual change and two big distinct ones. The gradual changes were to let...

In my experience promoting engineers can be the whole spectrum of possibilities as it can be a loss to the engineering community as much as a gain for management or...