SQL Server Agent Alerts and C# or .NET

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SQL Server Agent Alerts and C# or .NET

alex.sqldba

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April 12, 2017 at 3:07 am

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Morning All,
SQL Server Agent can generate alerts. Does anyone know if they can be consumed by a .NET application rather than relying on an Operator to forward them?
IF so, how so?
Cheers
Alex

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Sue_H SSC Guru Points: 90860 More actions · Answer 1

Not sure exactly what you want to do, probably me and not enough coffee yet, but the response to alerts is either an operator or a job so it doesn't necessarily have to go through an operator. And a job could do a lot of different things. And the alert doesn't necessarily need to have a response. The firing of alerts, the last date and time, number of occurrences is in the sysalerts table in msdb. So it seems different things could be done outside of using an operator.

Sue

alex.sqldba SSChampion Points: 10254 More actions · Answer 2

Sue_H - Wednesday, April 12, 2017 8:44 AM
Not sure exactly what you want to do, probably me and not enough coffee yet, but the response to alerts is either an operator or a job so it doesn't necessarily have to go through an operator. And a job could do a lot of different things. And the alert doesn't necessarily need to have a response. The firing of alerts, the last date and time, number of occurrences is in the sysalerts table in msdb. So it seems different things could be done outside of using an operator.
Sue

The firing of alerts, the last date and time, number of occurrences is in the sysalerts table in msdb.

This is what I was unable to articulate, exactIy.
For a moment I wondered if there was a Windows Event I could capture in .NET but really, all I need to keep an eye on the sysalerts you mentioned.

Thanks Sue! Perfect Answer!

Cheers
Alex

Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 3

just a little caution:
If you have an alert activating a job, and you disable the job without disabling the alert, your SQLAGENT.OUT file will explode because it still tries to launch the job until that succeeds ( about 6 times a second, all logged in that sqlagent.out file )

For sqlagent to act on its first alert, you may need to restart it.

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