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    Enable Mail Profile – Back to Basics

    March 13, 2019 /

    I’ve seen many people go through the trouble of setting up database mail and configuring SQL Agent Alerts only to realize it’s not working. The reason in the cases I’ve seen is because they have simply neglected to assign a mail profile to SQL Agent. This is way more common than you would think, thus I wrote this quick blog. This check box and drop down can sometimes lead to hours of troubleshooting if you don’t know where to look. In order to receive the alerts, you must enable a mail profile. This would be the profile  created during the Database Mail configuration process. To configure SQL Server Agent to…

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    Initial SQL Server Configurations

    October 19, 2015 /

    Wonder if I Do Things Differently? I am always wondering what other DBA’s do and if I am doing things differently. One such thing is my initial server setups, basically, what I configure for each of my new servers. So, why not blog about it and see what others chime in with after they read this. Keeping in mind that everyone has different requirements and different ways that they like to do the actual configurations. For now, I am not going to go into what each one of these configurations do and why I choose the value I do. That’s for another time. If you want that information you can…

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    Memory Optimized Tables in SQL Server
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    Resizing Tempdb (When TEMPDB Wont Shrink)
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    DMV’s for the Beginner
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    Change Azure SQL Database Service Level Objectives in SSMS
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    Add DBCC INPUTBUFFER to Your Performance Tuning Toolbox
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    Understanding Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server Part 1
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