I’m taking over a project and am having trouble tracking down a particular mechanism. I have a database with several tables and triggers. One of those tables is called MailQueue. I have a ticket tracking web app that uses this database, and certain actions in the app cause a message to be generated and inserted into the MailQueue table. Periodically (Every 5-10 minutes? Hard to tell) the messages get sent and the table emptied. Also, every morning at 6am reminders get sent out regarding unfinished tickets which were previously submitted via the web app.
I’ve been searching for days trying to find where and how these messages are sent out, both from the queue periodically and every morning at 6am. I’ve checked triggers, SQL Server jobs, Scheduled Tasks, and everywhere in the codebehind and I’m coming up dry.
Based on the characteristics I described, does anyone have any bright ideas how this might be happening? Here are the app and environment vitals.
- Windows Server 2003
- IIS 6 (.NET 1.1 App Pool)
- SQL Server 2005
Thanks 🙂
The easiest place to start would be to use SQL Profiler to trace whatever is happening with the
MailQueuetable, that should help you narrow things down quite quickly.