In a previous post, I presented a solution for monitoring and logging long running queries in SQL Server. In this post I’ll show an extended version of that solution that also sends an email when a request has been blocked … Read more →
When you set up SQL Server alerts on your SQL Server instance, make sure to run some tests to verify that they are actually firing when errors occur.
Are you managing a lot of SQL Server instances? I was setting up a standardized set of SQL Server Alerts on a number of servers and soon realized this was something that could be automated by using a script.