SQL Agent jobs are added / removed using stored procedure interface sp_add_job and sp_delete_job. Customers have asked us how we could track user who has created a job / deleted a specific job. You could accomplish this using SQL Server Auditing feature. You can turn on Auditing to track and log stored...

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One of our customer was looking for ways to schedule a policy evaluation on multiple servers using their existing MSX/TSX infrastructure. I thought it would be better to blog an article that could help others looking for similar information http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlagent/archive/2010/11/19/scheduled...

SQL Server Management Studio can be used to create a database backup job to backup an user database. Link This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm

# Powershell script to create a new Agent job and list the job using JobCollection # Inspects error collection and prints all inner exception function CheckForErrors { $errorsReported = $False if ( $Error . Count - ne 0 ) { write-host "******************************" write-host "Errors:" , $Error . Count...

changeSvcAcct.ps1 ########################################################################################### # Scenario:Change Service account for SQL Server, Agent services # # How to use this powershell script: # - Launch SQL Server PowerShell ( Start -> Run -> sqlps.exe) # - Copy the following...

Problem: Management view sys.dm_exec_requests has a column total_elapsed_time to track the total time elapsed in milliseconds since the request arrived. Following T-SQL query converted this value from milli-seconds to micro-seconds. -- Simplified version of a complex T-SQL batch SELECT session_id...

########################################################################################### # Scenario: Configure Database mirroring # # How to use this powershell script: # - Launch SQL Server PowerShell ( Start -> Run -> sqlps.exe) # - Copy the following powershell script and save to file (Ex...

########################################################################################### # SQL 2008 powershell script to print Resource Governor state, properties, Resource pools and corresponding workload groups # # How to use this powershell script: # - Launch SQL Server Management Studio ( Start...

########################################################### # SQL 2008 Powershell Script for Policy Based Management # Scenario: Create a server policy to check if XPCmdShell is disabled and save it to file # # To run this Powershell script # 1) Install SQL Server 2008 # 2) Run SQL PowerShell ( Start...

########################################################################################### # Scenario: Unrestrict Growth size on all Database Files that has AutoGrowth set as None # The following SQL 2008 Powershell sample code enumerates all user database data files and sets Autogrowth by 10% # # How...

a) Install SQL Server 2008. b) Launch SQL Server Management Studio ( Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2008 -> SQL Server Management Studio) c) Connect to SQL Server instance, Right click on the server node in Object Explorer and click on "Start Power Shell" menu d) Get...