Thursday, December 27, 2012

Print spooler failing to start up

The issue was related to a HP monitoring driver. Somehow this software got installed.  Maybe it got installed trying to extract a driver...
Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947477

Friday, December 14, 2012

How SQL 2005 Report Server works

Nice blog (see Reference below) about how report server works and what the logs files are for.

Here are some queries that I use to check to see if jobs are stuck on our Report server:

use ReportServer

-- Jobs waiting to execute

select *
from event e
order by TimeEntered


-- Jobs that ARE executing

select n.processstart, n.notificationentered, n.deliveryextension, sch.scheduleid, sub.subscriptionid, sub.description, sub.laststatus, sub.lastruntime
from notifications n, schedule sch, subscriptions sub
where (n.subscriptionid = sub.subscriptionid) and (sch.eventdata = sub.subscriptionid)
order by n.notificationentered desc



Reference:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2009/02/02/why-aren-t-my-subscriptions-working.aspx