There are many after market tools available to monitor health of SQL Server. But with help of built-in tools you can actually create some pretty neat solution by yourself too. And one of the most handy tool is “Alerts” in SQL Server. With help of Alerts you can monitor SQL Server Events, Various Performance Conditions […]
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Send emails using Database Mail … from SQL Server
Back in Pre SQL Server 2005 editions of SQL Server there was nice feature called SQL Mail which basically allowed users to send email from within database server. But that system has many dependencies and major one was requirement of Microsoft Exchange… thus usage was severely limited to enterprise customers who has resources to setup […]
Policy Based Management in SQL Server
This great feature was introduced in SQL Server 2008 and since then it has been considered as one of “standard” method to administer database proactively. As the name suggests, it allows DBAs to create various policies to enforce certain rules to single database, to group of databases or to whole server… for example default database […]
SQL Saturday # 184
One of my favorite event for which I always had to travel just too far .. either at NY or at MA for past few years … but this year CT is going to have it’s very own SQL Saturday. For anyone who have not heard about this great event then think of it as […]
Database Snapshots … The Good, Bad and Ugly
In SQL Server 2005 MSFT introduced very new feature … Database Snapshots … which is basically a read-only view of database at the time when snapshot was taken. Just as a side note…even at the time this feature was introduced in SQL Server, other age old DBMSes like Oracle and DB2 were already offering similar […]
RAISERROR with TRY … CATCH block
RAISERROR is one of the most efficient method to raise user created exception based on various situations. And TRY CATCH block is perhaps the most known method for exception handling in any programing language. But it is a bit tricky to use both of them together due to manner in which they transfer control to […]
Importing Fixed Position file into SQL Server
For any DBMS system (I know that it sounds redundant) data can come into variety of forms and formats .. say CSV, XML, another DBMS, tab limited file or fixed position file or any proprietary format (as long as you have data providers for them ). And most of connected DBMS systems have different approaches […]