January 12, 2018
This is a session about Azure Automation service and how you can perform some of SQL Agent functionality against Azure SQL Database using runbook. I presented the session to following user groups and events. PASS DBA Virtual Chapter (Asia Pacific Region) on November 15, 2017 PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on February 28, 2018 Boston Azure DataFest […]
November 15, 2017
There are many blog posts available online about reading SQL Server Error Log or SQL Server Agent Error Log. What I needed was to search for a string (or string within a string) in all available error logs. Save the results in a table. That way I can find the frequency and pattern of the […]
April 6, 2017
Today there was a question submitted in dba.stackexchange.com with the heading “Suppressing non-ANSI warnings in SQLCMD script”. Details here. In summary, this happens when you use a script to create a SQL Agent job and one of the job steps has conditions (under advanced properties) to go to certain steps in case of success or […]
January 28, 2016
There was a tweet that came last night from Lohit about “need guidance on how to enable a set of jobs on secondary AG as soon as failover happens from primary to secondary AG”. I have implemented a solution for most (I am using “most” literally because I have not done this for all jobs) of […]
January 8, 2016
DBA team that I worked with manage 170+ SQL Servers. We do not enable notification on any SQL Agent job. We centrally monitor all jobs and send a notification based on the tier (Business-critical). Last night on-call DBA got paged for a job failed in the server we are doing proof of concept. By looking […]