Friday, November 15, 2013

Monitoring Databases changes using WMI alerts by Svetlana Golovko



Problem
We need to get notifications every time a database is created or deleted. Also, we would like to receive emails when there are any database level configuration changes. This will help us react to these changes immediately (for example, configure database backup for a new database, configure transaction logs backups when the database recovery mode is changed, update maintenance plans and inventory when the database is deleted etc.).
Solution
In this tip you can find out how to setup email alerts using DDL triggers when new databases are created. In our tip we will explain how to setup universal notifications for databases modifications using WMI alerts.

SQL Server Agent Configuration