Azure SQL Analytics—Automating Deployment

One of the cool feature additions to Azure SQL Database is Azure SQL Analytics, an additional feature that connects your Azure SQL Database to Azure Log Analytics. You can use this in conjunction with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or Azure SQL Database Elastic Pools. Once this is configured you can see all […]

Scheduling things to Run in SQL Server

A key part of the SQL Server Agent is the ability to schedule jobs. While you can create one schedule for each agent job, frequently with applications like Reporting Services, users use Shared Schedules across multiple jobs. For instance, you can set a schedule to run at 8 am on week days or run every 2 hours or pick from a predefined list of schedules that already exist in the MSDB database. These are very convenient. However, if you choose to use these be sure you are keeping track of what is running for each of these shared schedules. You… Continue reading