Alerts
Alerts constitute the “reactive” component of Scheduling and Notification. The SQL Server Agent monitors the Windows Application Log; when an event occurs, the Agent compares that event to its list of alerts. If an alert has been defined on the event, the action defined for that alert is fired. Alerts can be configured to fire on SQL Server or user-defined error messages, or based on performance condition thresholds. When defining alerts to respond to error messages, remember that the error must be set to write to the application log or the alert won't fire. Only severity 19 and higher errors are required to write to the log, but all others can be configured to do so. Errors can be managed from the Enterprise Manager Tools menu, or through ...
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