Wayne Sheffield

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Learn how to use the SQL Server Agent Alerting system to capture Availability Group related errors and to respond to them by running jobs.

As you already know, SQL Server runs as a service. And services require a service account to run under. While this service account is likely to be a domain service account, it could be an account on the local machine. To follow good security practices you would need to specify that this account: Has the […]

One of the most basic actions dealing with a SQL Server instance is connecting to that instance. In this post, we’ll cover the many possible ways of connecting to a SQL Server instance.

SQLSaturday SpeedPASSes I’ve been working with running SQLSaturdays in the Richmond, VA area for several years now. It seems that every year, I end up blogging something new. Frequently, this ends up being a script of some kind to help me out. This post follows this theme by introducing a script for working with SQLSaturday […]