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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Variable history sizes in SQL Agent Jobs
If you have lots of jobs then you will need to adjust the max history sizes in the SQL Server Agent but what if you have one or two jobs that run every few minutes which hog all the log … Continue reading
Posted in Developer stuff, SQL Stuff
Tagged agent, jobs, sql agent, sql jobs, sql server, SQL Server Agent, sql tasks, tasks
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How to get configuration and properties for your SQL server e.g version, type, licence type, collation
Use the SERVERPROPERTY function with a parameter. There are 30 (ish) of them so the follow gets them all or just cut and past the one you need. Run this in any DB SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT ‘BuildClrVersion’ as PropertyName … Continue reading
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Tagged server properties, sql server service pack
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