How often do you do this? Look over each message (type) in the errorlog file and determine whether this is something you want to act on. Sure, some (but not all) of you have some monitoring solution in place, but are you 100% confident that it really will notify for all messages that you might find interesting? That there isn't even one little ...

Yep, another Agent blog. The topic of job owner has been discussed here before, but this is a specific situation, which potentially is a ticking bomb. First a quick recap of how agent does things: When a job is owned by somebody who is sysadmin, then no impersonation is performed. T-SQL jobsteps will be executed as Agent's own Windows ...

Just a short notice that I've released an article about moving databases between SQL Server instances: You find it at http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_moving_database.asp.

Under some circumstances, autogrow for database files can be set to some 12000 percent. I think this is limited to SQL Server 2005 and for databases upgraded from SQL Server 2000 (I didn't bother to search - feel free to comment if you know). So, if you have a reasonably sized database and autogrow kicks in, you can do the maths and realize that ...

I have finished my article about suggested SQL Server Agent Alerts. Perhaps calling this a ''Management Pack'' is OTT, but hopefully it will be useful to some of you folks. We are talking about having Agent sending email to us when SQL Server writes messages to EventLog. The functionality has been in the product since version 6.0, but I ...