Have you ever wanted an easy way to determine if a job is running for automated checks? This might not be an easy way, but Leo Peysakhovich provides a way that works and corrects an error in Books Online.
2005-10-18
29,060 reads
2005-10-11
1,581 reads
One thing Access developers love about using SQL Server as the back end is that it is easy to do maintenance. I can't tell you how many times I toured around an office, looking for users who had their client open and connected to the data so I could ask them to log out. Too many times, the offender was at lunch or away from their desks, with their desktops locked.
2005-10-11
3,496 reads
SQL Server has the best client tools for a DBA of any RDBMS and SQL Server 2000 includes Query Analyzer, an amazing tool. There are a few places where this tool could use some improvement and Yakov Shlafman brings us a few ways that you make your work with Query Analyzer even smoother.
2005-09-29
16,237 reads
SQL Server 2000 has a great set of administrative and development tools, one of the most heavily used of which is Enterprise Manager. Sushila Iyer brings us a fantastic article with some tricks in using this tool to create and manipulate tables.
2005-09-26
16,244 reads
If you are working with SQL Server 2005, you really need Visual Studio 2005 as well. And since they are both in Beta, there are some interesting issues when installing both of these pre-products. New author David Russell brings us some technical notes he made while installing both of these many times in a corporate environment.
2005-09-14
52,644 reads
SQL Server 2000 has a fantastic subsystem for alerting the DBA and keeping him or her informed as to the state of the server. However the email subsystem introduces a dependency on Outlook for alerts that can be a problem for some environments. Author Roy Carlson brings us an ingenious method for reading logs and sending alerts without Exchange or Outlook.
2005-09-12
12,492 reads
Ensuring your SQL Server is performing well is a large part of any good DBA's job. It is not just writing good queries, but also monitoring your server and getting alerts on critical issues. Mike Metcalf has brought us a great article that shows how you can setup performance alerts and be notified via SMTP.
2005-08-31
13,131 reads
SQL Server 2000 has a great scheduler in SQL Agent, but it isn't integrated with anything else. And with lots of servers, having a centralized environment is essential to keeping yourself from being overworked. Author Sureshkumar Ramakrishnan brings us his technique for running SQL Server jobs from an external scheduler.
2005-08-24
14,467 reads
2005-08-15
1,712 reads
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