Tuesday, April 1, 2008

New SQL Server Video Tutorial: Part 1 - How to Be a Proactive DBA: What Are Alerts?

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Alerts in SQL server are a very important piece for the administrator to understand; especially the DBAs who actively manage their server and want to be proactive with their management. Alerts allow you to define a response to an event or condition and in this introductory video tutorial your instructor Scott Whigham will divulge more on the world of alerts in SQL Server 2005.

Highlights from this video:
  • SQL Server log
  • Alert basics
  • Three firing instances of an event or condition
  • Operators in SQL
  • How an event occurs in SQL server and RAISERROR
  • Severity levels of errors
and much more


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Keywords Associated with this video: alerts, DBA, management, SQL Agent, WMI, Error Handling, Performance