When I first started as a SQL Server DBA / Developer in 1995 working with SQL Server 6.x one of the key steps was to set up alerting and monitoring. I was working for a very rapidly growing mortgage provider and DR, monitoring and performance were critical to the ongoing success of the company. I was very lucky to be working with some very clever and gifted people to whom SQL Server was something new, myself included as my prior experience had been Ingres and a little Oracle, this meant exciting...(read more)

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