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Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

From simple SQL databases to enterprise-level servers, most IT systems require some maintenance. Instead of completing these daily chores manually, you might want to automate regular tasks using some ...

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I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 minutes ...

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