This presentation talks about how to avoid production downtime by managing SQL Server Proactively.

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SQL Server – Manage SQL Server Proactively
Enhancing SQL Server Performance with
Columnstore Index
Harsh Chawla
Premier Field Engineer – Microsoft Services

2. About Me
Harsh Chawla
Premier Field Engineer, India
More than 7 years with Microsoft and overall 9 years of experience
Formerly with SQL Server CSS support engineering team
Technology expertise: SQL Server
Highlights:
• Presented in TechEd Bangalore , 2014
• Consistently delivering proactive/reactive services to Indian market
• SME on Performance and Tuning and SQL Azure solutions
• Running SQL Community in Delhi for last 10 months
Personal Blog : http://dbcouncil.net
Twitter : @Harsh_Chawla1
FB Group – SQL Server Community Delhi NCR
FB Page - DBCouncil

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Situation!
Production Server Down

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Proactive Vs Reactive

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Three Basic Principles
 Understand your “Present”
 Invest for better “Future”
 Don’t Ignore “Past”

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Understand your Present
 Understand the Business impact of the application hosted on your SQL Server instance
 SLA of the application
 SQL Configuration – Instance level and Database Level
 Disk Configuration – Know RAID Levels / IOPS
 Disk layout for the databases
 RTO and RPO
 SQL Server Instance Baselining (CPU/Memory/IO/Batches/Transactions)
What else?

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Invest for better “Future”
 Backup Strategy (RPO and RTO)
 Consistency checks
 Database maintenance (Rebuild Indexes , Update Statistics)
 Database Security
 Database Monitoring Alerts
 Build Index Strategy (Scheduled tasks for DBAs to find missing/duplicate/tables without indexes etc.)
 Set up right SQL server configuration e.g. SP_configure/tempdb/SQL Databases
What else?

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Don’t ignore “Past”
 Setup continuous monitoring using SCOM/Perfmon/MDW
 Have retention policy for Error logs/Agent logs / Event logs
 Setup Auditing
What else?

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What will be your first step on Monday?

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Q & A
Share the various tools which fall under these three categories