Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 3: Agent Alerts and Operators
How to be notified when a job succeeds or fails, or be notified when a SQL Server performance condition is met.
Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 4: Configuring Database Mail
Examines the database mail system configuration in depth. You will learn how to configure database mail to work with SMTP mail systems, and get some troubleshooting tips.
Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 5: Understanding SQL Agent Error Logs
How to interpret and configure the SQL Server Agent error logs. Critical information about SQL Server Agent is sent to this error log, so knowing how to find it and how to interpret information in the log will save you valuable troubleshooting time.
Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 6: Workflow within Jobs - Drilling into Job steps
How to configure and optimize job steps. Topics such as process flow between steps, security, and more details of the job subsystems are examined.
Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 7: Working with the SQL Server Agent Job Activity Monitor
The Job Activity Monitor is the system administration tool to run jobs, view job history, and enable/disable jobs. This article will also review some of the stored procedures run by the Job Activity Monitor that you can also use directly to do your own custom job monitoring.
Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 8: Using External programs with SQL Server Agent
One common usage of SQL Server Agent historically has been the ability to shell out to the operating system and run command line programs, using SQL Server Agent primarily as a job scheduler. This article will examine the pros and cons of using the SQL Server 2008 & 2008 R2 Powershell subsystem versus the CmdExec subsystem to perform tasks in the Operating System.
Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 9: Understanding Jobs and Security
Security is a confusing topic to many, especially when it comes to understanding what rights are needed to monitor and use SQL Server Agent. This article will examine the rights and roles used for SQL Server Agent, as well as the security context requirements for jobs.
Stairway to SQL Server Extended Events Level 4: Extended Events Engine - Essential Concepts
In this level, we're going to dig a little deeper into the Extended Events engine, its architecture, and fundamental components. It will give you a deeper understanding of why, in general, an Extended Events session is inherently lower in overhead than an equivalent SQL Trace. We'll also investigate how to design our event sessions to minimize any unnecessary overhead during event data collection, even when we need to create relatively complex event sessions to investigate difficult performance problems.
Stairway to SQL Server Virtualization Level 1: What is Virtualization?
The first level in the Stairway to Virtualization introduces the concept of virtualized servers as well as the terminology and benefits of implementing the technology.
Stairway to SQL Server Virtualization Level 4 - Building the Hyper-V VM
In this level of the Stairway to Server Virtualization, learn how to build a Hyper-V virtual machine for SQL Server.
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