Job overran Custom Metric
This SQL Monitor custom metric tells you if a specific SQL Server Agent job that runs at the same time every day has overrun. The metric is useful when a job can have negative effects on other processes if it overruns.
SQL Server Simple and Forced Parameterization
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Monitoring Transactional Replication in SQL Server
If you are using replication in SQL Server, you can monitor it in SSMS, but it makes sense to monitor distribution jobs automatically, especially if you can set up alerts or even set up first-line remedial action when a problem is detected. Francis shows how to do it in T-SQL as an agent job.
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Using Policy-Based Management to Check Number of SQL Server Data and Log Files
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Deploying CLR Assemblies with T-SQL
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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