Maintenance Plans for Beginners (but not only) | Each of experienced administrators used (to some extent) what is called Maintenance Plans - Plans of Conservation. During this session, I'd like to discuss what can be useful for us to provide functionality when we use them and what to look out for. Session at 200 times the forward-300, with the opening of the discussion.

1. Ad-Hoc MaintenancePlansfor Beginners
Tobiasz Janusz Koprowski
SQL Server MVP, FORG+

2. Слава Україні

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4. ABOUT ME
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5. AGENDA
MaintenancePlans –what are you talking about?
MaintenancePlans –how, where, when?
Methods, tools, right (?) ways
What Maintenance Plans can do you You
BackUpDatabase
VerifyIntegrityof Database
Maintaina Database Indexes
MaintainIndex & ColumnStatistics
RemoveOlderData from msdb
RemoveOldBackups
MaintenancePlans–howcontrolchanges?
Examples
Q&A
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6. MaitenancePlans
–whatwe aretalkingabout?

7. Maintenance Plans –what are you talking about?
Clean Environment
Silence
Knowledge about environment
Productivity / Performance
DEFINITION:
A database maintenance plan is a set of specific, proactive task that need to be performer regularly on databases to ensure their adequate performance and availability
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8. MaintenancePlans
–how, where, when?

9. Maintenance Plans –how, where, when?
HOW:
MaintenancePlan Wizard
MaintenancePlan Designer
T-SQL Scripts
PowerShellScripts
WHERE
SQL Server Management Studio from Standard and above
See you in… Express
WHEN:
BEFORE: problems / service windows
AFTER: maintaining / clients back to home
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10. HOW: Maintenance Plan Wizard
Very simple (although advanced) wizard
Providing possibility for creation simple task in dozens of seconds
Enough in many cases, environments
Limited but huge number of options
Limitations:
number of databases
granularity
single tasks / no multitasking
no scripting for another instances
some known problems in previous version of SQL Server
SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2
SQL Server 2008
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11. HOW: Maintenance Plan Designer
More flexible and advanced tool (not on this session)
Graphical user interface with SSIS
Most often used for „really DBA”
Increased features
Workflow for specified tasks with execution plan
Multitasking
Two additional Maintenance plans
ExecuteT-SQL Statement
Notify Operator
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12. LIMITATIONS: Maintenance Plan wizard & Designer
Limitations for both tools / those ideas are not possible
Identification and removing fragmentation for physical files
Identification abandoned, duplicated, forgotten indexes
Providing backup on demand
Werification good quality of backup
Werification succesful restore
Monitoring of performance
Monitoring of SQL OS
Monitoring of Windows OS
Monitoring available space
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13. Maintenance Plan: t-sql & powershell scripts
Functionality for „Real *Tru* DBA”
Necessary for working with multiple databases, instances, server farms
Feauters for scripting:
Access to OS
Posibility of moving
Scripts sharing
One of the best examples and tools for free:
HTTP://OLA.HALLENGREN.COM/
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14. WhatMaintenancePlanscando youYou

15. Maintenance plans: available tasks
CheckDatabase Integrity
DBCC CHECKDB
ShrinkDatabase
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER
ReorganizeIndex
ALTER INDEX , and next Update Statistics
RebuildIndex
ALTER INDEX, Update Statistics are not necessary
Update Statistics
Sp_updatestats
HistoryCleanup
Using msdb, don’t do that too much frequently
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16. Maintenance plans: available tasks
ExecuteSQL Server Agent Job
Providing scrip using wen You work with agent
BackUpDatabase (Full)
Executing BACKUP DATABASE with FULLoption, and next Transaction Log
BackUpDatabase (Differential)
Executing BACKUP DATABASE with DIFFERENTIAL option
BackUpDatabase (TransactionLog)
Executing BACKUP LOG, frequency...
MaintenanceCleanupTask
Most complicated feature ? BAK, TRN, TXT
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17. Functionality: Verify Integrity of Database
YOU SHOULD REMEMBER
usingDBCC CHECKDB
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
DBCCCHECKDB(’database_name’)WITHNO_INFOMSGS
Suppressesallinformationalmessages.
DBCCCHECKDB(’database_name’)WITHNO_INFOMSGS,ALL_ERRORMSGS
Displaysallreportederrorsperobject.Allerrormessagesaredisplayedbydefault.Specifyingoromittingthisoptionhasnoeffect.ErrormessagesaresortedbyobjectID,exceptforthosemessagesgeneratedfromtempdbdatabase.
InSQLServerManagementStudio,themaximumnumberoferrormessagesreturnedis1000.
DBCCCHECKDB(’database_name’)NOINDEX
Specifiesthatintensivechecksofnonclusteredindexesforusertablesshouldnotbeperformed. Thisdecreasestheoverallexecutiontime.NOINDEXdoesnotaffectsystemtablesbecauseintegritychecksarealwaysperformedonsystemtableindexes
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18. POSSIBILITIES: SHRINK DATABASE
YOU SHOULD REMEMBER
NEVER USE THIS OPTION IN MAINTENACE PLANS
MDF & LDF
100 GB reserved
15 GB in use
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE
or
DBCC SHRINKFILE | MANUAL MODE
Reduction of Reserved Space
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19. POSSIBILITIES: Maintain Index & Column Statistics
YOU SHOULD REMEMBER
Automation:
AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS
AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS
Executing automatically after: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
UPDATE STATISTICS table_name WITH FULLSCAN
When:
Never…
Just after Index Reorganization
On the days when we’re not using Index Rebuild or Reorganize Index
Important options (UPDATE STATISTICS):
Allexistingstatistics
Columnstatisticsonly
Index statisticsonly
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20. POSSIBILITIES: Reorganize vs rebuild

21. POSSIBILITIES: history clean up (MSDB)
YOU MUST REMEMBER
Choosingthe data (right data) for deleting:
Backup and restorehistory
SQL Server Agent jobhistory
MaintenancePlan history
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22. MaitenancePlans
–howcontolchanges?

23. Link database to SVN, TFS, Git, Mercurial, Vault, Perforce
Source control for schemas and data
Push and pull database changes in SSMS
Check development history and access specific database versions
Store and share scripts to handle complex changes, such as column splits
Undo SQL Server changes
Exclude objects from source control using custom filters.
Supports SQL Server on Amazon RDS
View SQL differences between objects in a database and source control
Work with SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare to deploy databases directly from source controlhttp://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source-control/
Maintenanceplans: howcontolit?

24. RedGate SQL Source Control with SSMS

25. RedGate SQL Source Control linkeddatabase

26. RedGate SQL Source Control

27. Summary

28. We should remember about:
Task sequences
Task execution
Task priority
Documentation
Using: daily / weekly / occasionally
Better expoloration of our environment
Monitoring (partially) of performance
Standard and above (sorry)
MaintenancePlan Wizard
for beginners and small installations
Maintenance Plan Designer
Adult, more complicated, wideenvironment
MaintenancePlansControl with RedGateSource Control
Scripts control
Database changes
SUMMARY
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29. BradMcGehee| Brad’ Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans
„My new eBook,Brad’ Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plansis now available as
a free, 269 page PDF eBook. The book is designed for part-time or novice DBAs who
want to learn how to properly create Maintenance Plans using the tools that come with
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) in SQL Server 2005/2008.
LINK: http://bit.ly/1ijdnah
Ola Hallengreen| MaintenancePlansScripts PASS slidedeck
„The SQL Server Maintenance Solution comprises scripts for running backups,
integrity checks, and index and statistics maintenance on all editions of Microsoft
SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012. The
solution is based on stored procedures, sqlcmdutility, and SQL Server Agent jobs”
LINK: http://bit.ly/1b220Ns
LINKS
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30. White Papers:
http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-source- control/learn-more/white-papers
Case Study video of SQL Source Control & Continuous integration:
http://play.buto.tv/yhkvl
Product Manager& Developer session on Top tops for Continuous Integration:
http://play.buto.tv/TzmXD
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