Monitoring a SQL Server database is a critical component of database administration. Ninety percent of the organizations expect the number of databases to increase over the next twelve months. An increase in data volumes can have negative effects on the availability of databases. Hence, SQL Server database monitoring is considered a critical responsibility of a database administrator. Organizations tend to spend a lot of their funds towards enterprise solutions. And due to the sensitive and growing nature of business and user needs, application availability is very important nowadays.

Data Flow Diagram

Let’s look at the high-level view of this implementation:

1. A dedicated SQL Instance has the SQL Server DB Mail configured
2. In the dedicated instance, a SQL Server agent job is used to schedule SQL Jobs
3. It contains the stored procedure to perform XML data transformation. Also, it takes care of sending the email to intended recipients, using SMTP
4. The SQL file that contains the code to be executed on the listed SQL instance is placed in a shared path. The path should be accessible from all the SQL instances.

Further reading

Monitoring SQL Server database status changes using T-SQL and PowerShell scripts

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