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EXECUTE permission denied on object 'xp_sqlagent_notify', database 'mssqlsystemresource', schema 'sys'.

Published 27 May 8 3:48 AM | SSQA.net

Granting permissions to relevant account is a required criteria within the SQL Server databases management, for this even Reporting Services is not exceptional. As per the configuration by default the users connect to the report server by using their...

Filed under: sql server, databases, security, permissions, sqlagent, reporting services, reportserver, reportservertempdb, rsexecrole

SQL Server Replication - resolving too many snapshots issues?

Published 15 April 8 6:15 AM | SSQA.net

In case you have many snapshots generated within your Replication setup and having troubles in finding what kind of scheduled job is running during the time of snapshot publication. By default you coudl take help of system catalog MSsnapshot_agents and...

Filed under: sql server, replication, snapshot, sqlagent, script, publisher, tsql, schedule

SQL Server 2005 Agent XPs disabled error - how to resolve this issue?

Published 6 February 8 2:38 AM | SSQA.net

When SQL Server 2005 Management Studio's Object Browser shows the SQL Server Agent service with a red down arrow and the text Agent XP's disabled , the service is not started or disabled. This used to be a problem prior to Service Pack 2 for SQL...

Filed under: sql server, profiler, security, services, sqlagent, sa, error log, msdtc, group policy

Cluster resource 'SQL Server (<SQL Server instance name>)' in Resource Group '<Cluster group name>' failed.

Published 10 October 7 4:31 PM | SSQA.net

A common mistake by DBAs for missing to check whether all the functionality of tools are working when a SQL Server Cluster environment is setup, though you may not catch hold of few issues with basic failover/failback testing initially but when the application...

Filed under: sql server, dba, sqlagent, best practices, cluster, error log, online, failure, active/passive

Automation of Analysis Services database backup

Published 26 September 7 5:19 AM | SSQA.net

You may be well versed with scheduling the database backups using SQL Serve Agent --> Jobs with Enterprise Manager or Management Studio. So how about creating a automation job for SQL Server 2005 analysis services database backup every night. Simple...

Filed under: sql server, databases, backup, security, reporting, sqlagent, Analysis Services, xmla

Recovery of database 'dbname' (10) is 17% complete (approximately 31602 seconds remain). Phase 3 of 3. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.

Published 5 September 7 3:13 AM | SSQA.net

Though the message specifies as an informational message only and no user action is required, you should take some action to avoid current behaviour of databases within your environment. Also check whether you have enabled the AUTO_CLOSE property for...

Filed under: sql server, performance, databases, sqlagent, error log, recovery, suspect, message

Change SQLAgent log file location after SQL Server installation

Published 11 July 7 4:17 AM | SSQA.net

Can we change the location of SQL agent error log file after the SQL Server program is installed? Yes, i n terms of configuring a specified number of SQL Server Agent error logs, this is not possible. The default number of log files for SQLAGent is 9...

Filed under: sql server, log, sqlagent, error log, location, path

Delete DEMO alerts from SQLAgent

Published 25 May 7 9:24 AM | SSQA.net

Since the days of SQL 70 automated administrative tasks are getting better with the usage of SQLAgent, you need to know how to configure alerts and set up operators, the people SQL Server contacts when alert conditions arise. SQLAgent Jobs can trigger...

Filed under: sql server, sqlagent, jobs, demo, alerts, scheduled