Change the Priority of an Account within a Database Mail Profile (SSMS)

Here, I demonstrate how to change the priority of a Database Mail account within a profile in SQL Server using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) graphical user interface.

If you want to see how to do it using T-SQL, see Change the Sequence Number of an Account in Database Mail (T-SQL).

The priority and the sequence number are the same thing (when you change it with T-SQL you use the @sequence_number parameter).

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How to Install SQL Server

SQL Server used to be available on Windows machines only. If you didn’t have Windows, you didn’t install SQL Server.

Now, SQL Server is available on Windows, Linux, and even Mac (via Docker containers).

This obviously means that an article titled “how to install SQL Server” is not as simple as it used to be!

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