If you are an old hand at Microsoft SQL Server, you have probably used the SQL Server Agent (i.e., SQL Agent) service and MSDB database for the last 20 years. With a humble and largely unchanged ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases. A fundamental skill for DBAs is to ...

SQL Server 2005 makes assigning this permission much easier through the use of new database roles in the msdb database. The SQLAgentReaderRole is a database role located in the msdb database.

which allows multiple copies of a database to be replicated across multiple servers, is that there was no support for the system databases MSDB and Master, which contain log-ins and SQL Server ...

At Microsoft's Ignite digital event this week, the company is announcing the private preview of SQL Server 2022, the next version of its three-decades-old relational database management system ...