Video Tutorials

The video library below includes a brief tutorial (under 5 minutes) of key Event Manager features and concepts. Watch now or download to view at a more convenient time. You will need the newest Windows Media™ Player available from Microsoft.

Event Manager Overview Learn Event Manager visually with this first in the series introductory tutorial. This tutorial offers a general overview of some of the main features of Event Manager.

Migrating to SQL Server 2005 Install Event Manager today before you upgrade to SQL Server 2005 and you will save yourself the considerable time and effort of configuring, activating, testing, and maintaining Database Mail on each and every SQL Server 2005 instance. View this video to find out how.

Graphical Chaining Interface Tutorial: An introduction to Event Manager's Event Chaining - Event Manager's advanced chaining features enable you to quickly and easily define dependencies and workflows involving SQL Agent jobs and/or Windows Tasks.

Advanced Chaining Learn Event Manager visually with this first in the series introductory tutorial. This tutorial offers a general overview of some of the main features of Event Manager.

Introduction to Notifications An introduction to Event Manager's advanced alerts and notifications - Event Manager employs the most comprehensive and reliable notification system available today for SQL Server, providing a wide variety of response actions to any job status, runtime or performance condition.

Advanced Notifications Set up Group Notifications, generate email or pager alerts, and take various other actions using event status, runtime, or performance information. There are over 90 total conditions, supported across all event sources, available for notification.

Filtering Calendar Views An introduction to the filtering capabilities of Event Manager - This tutorial steps you through the many options available to control the number of events displayed in a view.

Job Automation Learn Event Manager visually with this first in the series introductory tutorial. This tutorial offers a general overview of some of the main features of Event Manager.

SQL Server Virtualization Management SQL Sentry Event Manager helps you get a handle on virtual server sprawl by allowing you to create a consolidated Outlook style calendar view of all the activity across your virtual servers sharing the same physical resources.