I want to know the meaning of pager in SQL Server Agent context. Anybody can explain it please?
Thanks
A pager is a simple beepy device from pre-mobile phone era: you can configure SQL Server Agent to page you, in addition to emailing you.
Nowadays, you'd send an SMS or such. The Wikipedia link above has info on modern usage "Pager use in the 21st century"
And thank you for making me feel old...
It's the usual meaning: Pager: for operator alerts
Remember the pagers that people had in the 90s..you would call the pager, leave your number and the person would call you back...well SQL agent has that ability too...but I don't think anyone has a pager anymore
Pager
Includes the e-mail address for
the message between the prefix and the
suffix.
Taken from here
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Right now i'm working with oracle 11g on windows and currently trying to send notifications from my database using emails (Gmail), but all I'm clear with right now is that I have to include the Gmail certificate in the oracle wallets but don't know how to do it, and I also think that there's something to be done with the access control lists but I'm not completley sure how, any help or recommendations are enormously appreciated.
Backup the Oracle wallet files first. To get he wallet file locations run:
SELECT * FROM V$ENCRYPTION_WALLET
Then look at the orapki utility to get you started - search for this and you should find the Oracle documentation.
The following is how to add a certificate to the wallet:
orapki wallet add -wallet wallet_location -trusted_cert -cert certificate_location
For any Windows users who may need help with what I asked, there's a really good link/tutorial sort of instruction set on git:
https://github.com/YairPR/Oracle/wiki/Enviar-correo-con-Oracle:--ACL---UTL_SMTP---Wallet---SSL--TLS----Gmail
It's in spanish, but all the commands and steps are there, although you may just happen to need to translate it, hope it's useful for someone!
We have some to critical jobs in our production system. We receiving email about of job status succeded or failed and also we want to set send text message from SQL Server. I searched but looks not so possible, has anybody tried before ?
I have done this a long time ago using a third-party tool that offers exactly what you need. You can find out more about it here.
And here you can find detailed information on how to send and receive messages from SQL Server, using this tool.
In the website it is stated that you can only use this for free for the first 30 days.
Basically you will need to host their small database on your SQL Server and then insert a row into a Messages table with the message you want to send along with the phone number to which it has to be delivered.
"The SMS Messaging Server service application will pickup any newly added messages and send them out through the appropriate channel automatically." as stated in the documentation.
However, because it is a third party tool and not open source, I don't know if it will be suitable for you. I am not aware of any free tools for the same purpose.
I have found this link where it is explained how to turn emails into text messages, it has an inconvenient, however: you have to know the cellular provider for each of the phones you want to send message.
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2922/sql-server-alerts-with-text-messaging-from-sql-server-database-mail/
Best regards,
I am searching for a way to switch between my home's workgroup and my work's Domain.
I am sure that it can be done with some commands in batch/python language but I have no idea how to do it...
I'll be happy to get some help..
I heard good things about this site, will be happy to see those things come true :)
Thanks,
Amihay
Microsoft suggests that you use netdom. Note that the machine will have to restart (as it does whenever you change the workgroup).
For example, if you have a computer called mymachine that you want to switch the domain mydomain you would write:
netdom join mymachine /Domain:mydomain /reboot
See Also:
Netdom Overview at Microsoft TechNet for more information about netdom
Last night one of our SQL servers developed some major problems and after a colleague stopped, started, and all the usual things it started checking and rebuilding databases and is now running an extended stored procedure called "xp_qv".
The internet seems to be very short of information on what this procedure does or anythign like that so I was hoping somebody here might be able to help.
I should add that I assume it is meant to be running so the question isn't "Can I stop it" or anything like that, its just curiosity in what it is doing in the hope that it will help determine how long before things are usable again...
This is the only information I could find..
xp_qv, hosted in xpsqlbot.dll is a
wrapper around functionality in
sqlboot.dll, which returns information
about the SKU type, licensing etc It
is not documented that is why you can
not find a reference.
Could not find this term very easily on google.
I assume it's the ability to patch a DBMS with an update without stopping service.
Is this correct? If not, please guide me.
Thanks in advance.
jbu
Patch Access usually refers to a service to (preferrable easily) get access to relevant patches (for your dbms in this case).
For more information see:
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3569941/Database-Security-and-Patches--Part-3.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_database_management_systems#Access_Control