Chapter 6. Monitoring and Automating SQL Server
This chapter covers how SQL Server usage and performance monitoring, logging, alerting, and error checking can be done with PowerShell. The topics covered in this chapter include the following:
- Getting to know helpful cmdlets
- Scheduling PowerShell scripts
- Checking logs
- Monitoring failed jobs
- Alerting on disk space usage
- Logging blocked processes
- Getting performance metrics
Getting to know helpful cmdlets
Before we start covering any SQL Server-specific snippets, it's good to identify cmdlets that are frequently used when you are monitoring and logging any activities. The cmdlets described in this section are the ones you will (most likely) frequently use. Remember to use Get-Help to get the full documentation ...
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