SQL Server Agent

Stairway to SQL Server Agent

Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 9: Understanding Jobs and Security

  • Stairway Step

Security is a confusing topic to many, especially when it comes to understanding what rights are needed to monitor and use SQL Server Agent. This article will examine the rights and roles used for SQL Server Agent, as well as the security context requirements for jobs.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2019-03-26 (first published: )

10,111 reads

Stairway to SQL Server Agent

Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 8: Using External programs with SQL Server Agent

  • Stairway Step

One common usage of SQL Server Agent historically has been the ability to shell out to the operating system and run command line programs, using SQL Server Agent primarily as a job scheduler. This article will examine the pros and cons of using the SQL Server 2008 & 2008 R2 Powershell subsystem versus the CmdExec subsystem to perform tasks in the Operating System.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2019-03-26 (first published: )

6,174 reads

Stairway to SQL Server Agent

Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 7: Working with the SQL Server Agent Job Activity Monitor

  • Stairway Step

The Job Activity Monitor is the system administration tool to run jobs, view job history, and enable/disable jobs. This article will also review some of the stored procedures run by the Job Activity Monitor that you can also use directly to do your own custom job monitoring.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2019-03-26 (first published: )

5,473 reads

Stairway to SQL Server Agent

Stairway to SQL Server Agent - Level 5: Understanding SQL Agent Error Logs

  • Stairway Step

How to interpret and configure the SQL Server Agent error logs. Critical information about SQL Server Agent is sent to this error log, so knowing how to find it and how to interpret information in the log will save you valuable troubleshooting time.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2019-03-26 (first published: )

6,974 reads

External Article

SQL Server Agent Jobs without an Operator

  • Article

I work in a fairly large and unwieldy SQL Server shop. Our environment is the wild west. I have DBAs and Developers on my team that create SQL Server Agent Jobs all of the time and there is never an operator setup to email anyone based on a failure condition. I know the right solution here is to "tame the wild west" by locking down the environment and setting up a change management process, but I think that is a topic for another day. Can you give me some idea of how to identify the new recently created SQL Server Agent Jobs and Jobs without an operator setup to email us for a failure condition? I would like to receive emails when either of these conditions occur. Check out the solution to this tip to learn how.

2011-06-03

4,386 reads

Blogs

Small Data SF 2024

By

I can’t remember how I heard about Small Data SF 2024, but it caught...

A New Word: Moledro

By

moledro – n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll...

Snowflake + Azure blob

By

Let’s go back to data platforms today and I want to talk about a...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

7 sept, scheduled book

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 7 sept, scheduled book

7 sept, schedlued article

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 7 sept, schedlued article

6 sept, published book

By philip.scott

Comments posted to this topic are about the item 6 sept, published book

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 is built on ...?

See possible answers