T-SQL Tuesday #015 – Automation in SQL Server

An interesting topic, challenge, and idea from TSQL Tuesdays here.

Here’s mine. I have a SQL Agent job that I install on every instance that I manage. It’s a simple job that only fires on SQL Agent Start up. It queries sys.databases for pertinent information regarding the databases (multiuser, online) etc. and emails it to an Exchange Distribution list in my company. I get an email every time a SQL Server Agent blinks off and then back on. The email lists each of the databases and tells me if they’re ready to support their application or not.

Here’s the script.

USE [msdb]
GO


BEGIN TRANSACTION
DECLARE @ReturnCode INT
SELECT @ReturnCode = 0

IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name FROM msdb.dbo.syscategories WHERE name=N'Database Maintenance' AND category_class=1)
BEGIN
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_category @class=N'JOB', @type=N'LOCAL', @name=N'Database Maintenance'
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

END

DECLARE @jobId BINARY(16)
EXEC @ReturnCode =  msdb.dbo.sp_add_job @job_name=N'Sql Server Agent Restart Notification', 
		@enabled=1, 
		@notify_level_eventlog=2, 
		@notify_level_email=0, 
		@notify_level_netsend=0, 
		@notify_level_page=0, 
		@delete_level=0, 
		@description=N'No description available.', 
		@category_name=N'Database Maintenance', 
		@owner_login_name=N'sa', @job_id = @jobId OUTPUT
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep @job_id=@jobId, @step_name=N'Check DB Status', 
		@step_id=1, 
		@cmdexec_success_code=0, 
		@on_success_action=1, 
		@on_success_step_id=0, 
		@on_fail_action=2, 
		@on_fail_step_id=0, 
		@retry_attempts=0, 
		@retry_interval=0, 
		@os_run_priority=0, @subsystem=N'TSQL', 
		@command=N'DECLARE @msgSubject as varchar(100) 
DECLARE @servername as varchar(50)
DECLARE @statusQuery  varchar(500)
Set nocount ON
		
select @servername =@@servername
Set @msgSubject = ''DB STATUS on SERVER ''  + @servername
		
set @statusQuery= ''select distinct convert(varchar(35),name) as NAME, 
	convert(varchar(20),convert(sysname,DatabasePropertyEx(name,''''Status''''))) as [STATUS],
	convert(varchar(20),convert(sysname,DatabasePropertyEx(name,''''Updateability''''))) as UPDATEABLE,
	convert(varchar(20),convert(sysname,DatabasePropertyEx(name,''''UserAccess''''))) as ACCESSIBLE
	from master..sysdatabases  ''
	
EXEC  MSDB.dbo.SP_send_dbmail @profile_name = ''DBA Email'', @importance=''HIGH'', @subject=@msgSubject , @recipients=''CHANGE THIS SILLY'', @query=@statusQuery', 
		@database_name=N'master', 
		@flags=0
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_update_job @job_id = @jobId, @start_step_id = 1
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobschedule @job_id=@jobId, @name=N'1', 
		@enabled=1, 
		@freq_type=64, 
		@freq_interval=0, 
		@freq_subday_type=0, 
		@freq_subday_interval=0, 
		@freq_relative_interval=0, 
		@freq_recurrence_factor=0, 
		@active_start_date=20101026, 
		@active_end_date=99991231, 
		@active_start_time=0, 
		@active_end_time=235959
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobserver @job_id = @jobId, @server_name = N'(local)'
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
COMMIT TRANSACTION
GOTO EndSave
QuitWithRollback:
    IF (@@TRANCOUNT > 0) ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
EndSave:

GO

So the big part in there is to pass sp_send_dbmail an @query with the results of a status query to sysdatabases.

2 thoughts on “T-SQL Tuesday #015 – Automation in SQL Server

  1. So I just updated the code, changing the email address as I just started getting alerts from some other company. Guess I shouldn’t have left our distribution group email address in the code!

    On Line 53, you will need to change
          @recipients=”CHANGE THIS SILLY”

    to your desired mailbox address.

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