If you haven’t migrated your workloads to a managed database platform yet, you’re probably still relying on SQL Server Agent for various maintenance and other scheduled tasks. Most of the time, these processes just work. But when it’s time to troubleshoot, it can be cumbersome to get to the root of some problems.
2024-04-17
This script will create the necessary login and linked servers on a given availability replica. Please ensure that the script is executed on all the replicas.
2022-02-22 (first published: 2022-01-25)
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SQL Server Agent has a built-in alerting process for when jobs fail, but the information it provides isn’t very useful. You’re only told which job, what time, who ran it, and which step failed. If you want to see why it failed, you have to review the job history manually. On a busy system with […]
2020-10-29
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2020-10-22
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2019-11-14
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Lists the job names and package names for jobs that execute SSIS packages (for packages stored in msdb).
2017-09-13 (first published: 2017-09-05)
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Finding the nightly job failures is just one of a DBA's morning rituals. It is fairly easy to scan all the email with a number of creative search criteria, but what if you would like a more automated approach? Read on to learn how to find and report all job failures using a script.
2017-01-12
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Your SQL Agent Jobs may be silently failing when using Linked Servers.
2016-05-02
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2016-04-28
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To show SQL Server and physical server details upon instance restart so that we have visibility of unexpected issues with servers and services.
2016-02-18 (first published: 2016-02-04)
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By Steve Jones
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