Geek Sync I Surviving the Holidays with SQL Server

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You can watch the replay for this Geek Sync webcast in the IDERA Resource Center: http://ow.ly/3mt150A5fo2 It's the end of the year and you want to have a safe and uninterrupted holiday vacation. Or you're the one who won't be taking time off but you have plenty of co-workers who will and you don't want to be stuck holding the bag if something goes wrong (and Murphy says it will). While this sounds like a pipe dream for anyone who works in IT, there are steps you can take to minimize your chances of being interrupted by that frantic phone call or email from work.

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Surviving the
Holidays with
SQL Server
December 14, 2016

Our Goals
• Ensure whoever is in the office has everything
he or she needs.
• Minimize the requirement for contacting
someone out of office.
• Train up more people to do the job.

Performance Criteria
The Right Backups
Restore Scripts
Points of Contact
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1
2
4

The Right Backups
What are the right
backups? How do you
know you have them?

The Right Backups
How You Know You’ve Got What You Need…
• Recovery Point Objective (RTO)
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
• Operating Level Agreements (OLAs)
• Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

The Right Backups
Check Against What You’ve Got
• Review Your backups – Do you have them all?
• Check backup history looking for failures.
• Check the actual backup locations!
• Check permissions for support staff.

Everything
in place?
Check / correct
documentation.
No
“tribal knowledge!”

Restore Scripts
How do you know the
backups are good?

Restore Scripts
Test Restores of Your Backups
• Use scripts, not the GUI.
• Build your scripts to take input.
• Test restore automation for complex recovery.
• Make sure support has access to the scripts!

Restore Scripts
Why You Should Test
• Verify the backups are, in fact, good.
• Ensure there are scripts for every database.
• Be able to generate estimates for recovery time.
• Have support test with you (OJT).

Performance Criteria
Do you know what
indicates a performance
issue?

Performance Criteria
Have Baselines
• Know what a system looks like normally.
• Have a baseline to refer back to.
• Make sure support understands the baseline.
• Batch processing as well as business day.

Performance Criteria
What other duties are
required?

Performance Criteria
Document Additional Duties
• Every group is different.
• What do you do outside of the standard DBA?
• Document what, when, and how.
• Train support to do these additional duties.
• Make sure PoCs know about support.

Points of Contact
Who should be
contacted?

Points of Contact
Compile Them All
• Outside vendors for the products.
• Support personnel from other teams.
• Business folks over systems.
• Escalation paths.

Points of Contact
Include:
• When folks will be in and out of office.
• Work, cell, and other contact numbers.
• SLA/OLA expectations for each system.

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Join us for an introduction from Idera's CEO Randy Jacops followed by our Keynote Presentation: “The Future of Data is The Data Cloud”; presented by Kent Graziano (AKA The Data Warrior), Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake. Lots has happened at Snowflake in the last few years (including a HUGE IPO!). In this session Kent will give an update on Snowflake’s vision of a world with unlimited access to governed data, enabling every organization to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and be prepared for the possibilities of tomorrow. Every company in the world still struggles with how to take all their siloed data and turn it into insight, quickly. The Snowflake Data Cloud enables organizations, in every industry, to democratize their data and become data-driven. This talk will introduce you to The Data Cloud, how it works, and the problems it solves for real companies across the globe and across industries. Kent will also update you on recent governance innovations such as dynamic data masking, tagging, and row access policies that will help you build a robust and secure analytics platform. About our Keynote Speaker = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Kent Graziano, is the Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake and an award-winning author, speaker, and thought leader. He is an Oracle ACE Director (Alumni), Knight of the OakTable Network, a certified Data Vault Master and Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner (CDVP2), and expert solution architect with over 35 years of experience, including more than 25 years of designing advanced data and analytics architectures (in multiple industries). He is an internationally recognized expert in cloud and agile data design. Mr. Graziano has developed and led many successful software and data analytics implementation teams, including multiple agile DW/BI teams. He has written numerous articles, authored 3 Kindle books, co-authored 4 other books (including the 1st Edition of The Data Model Resource Book), and has given hundreds of presentations around the world.

Idera live 2021: Managing Databases in the Cloud - the First Step, a Succes...

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You need to start moving some on-premises databases to the cloud. - Where do you begin? - What are your options? - What will your job look like afterward? -What tools can you use to manage databases in the cloud? - How does troubleshooting database performance problems in the cloud differ from on-premise? - How can you help manage monthly cloud costs so the effort actually is cost effective? Moving to the cloud is not as easy as one might think. So, knowing the answers to these kinds of question will place your feet on the path to success. See how DB PowerStudio can readily assist with these efforts and questions. The presenter, Bert Scalzo, is an Oracle ACE, blogger, author, speaker and database technology consultant. He has worked with all major relational databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, Sybase, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Bert’s work experience includes stints as product manager for multiple-database tools, such as DBArtisan and Aqua Data Studio at IDERA. He has three decades of Oracle database experience and previously worked for both Oracle Education and Oracle Consulting. Bert holds several Oracle Masters certifications and his academic credentials include a BS, MS, and PhD in computer science, as well as an MBA.

Idera live 2021: Database Auditing - on-Premises and in the Cloud by Craig M...

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Hackers, thieves, and many cybercriminals are constantly on the lookout for ways to harvest your data and use it for their own nefarious purposes. And where do they look? Everywhere! However, your database systems are the most likely target because that is where the data is located! And increasingly, your data is not just on computers running in your data center, but also in the cloud. So, organizations must be ever-vigilant to see who is accessing the sensitive corporate data in your databases usage and protect it from unauthorized access. Protecting your data for business reasons is a big enough reason to check your data access. In addition, many governmental and industry regulations exist that mandate you do so. Each regulation places different demands on what types of data access we must watch and audit. Ensuring compliance can be difficult, especially when you need to follow multiple regulations. And you need to capture all relevant data access attempts while still maintaining the service levels for the performance and availability of your applications. This webinar discusses these issues as well as presenting the requirements for auditing data access in relational databases. The goal of this presentation is to review the regulations affecting the need to audit at a high level. Then, the speaker will discuss the things that need to be audited, along with pros and cons of the various ways of accomplishing this. The presenter, Craig Mullins, is president and principal consultant of Mullins Consulting, Inc. where he focuses on data management strategy and consulting. Craig writes the monthly DBA Corner column for Database Trends & Applications magazine. With over three decades of experience in all facets of database systems development, he has worked as a programmer and analyst, a database administrator, an industry analyst, a software executive, and a consultant.

Idera live 2021: Performance Tuning Azure SQL Database by Monica Rathbun

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Have you moved to a cloud database like Azure SQL Database and are having performance issues? While the Azure SQL services running in Azure are like SQL Server, they are key differences in performance tuning methodologies. In this session, you will learn about monitoring options, changes in cloud DMVs, and additional cloud tuning tools like Azure SQL Analytics and Performance Insights that can allow you quickly get to performance data across several instances. You will learn about what you need to keep in mind when choosing between scaling-out to readable secondaries and scaling-up to higher tier solutions. Discuss with Microsoft MVP Monica Rathbun the challenges and benefits of tuning, what to keep in mind, and what to expect in the cloud.

Geek Sync | How to Be the DBA When You Don't Have a DBA - Eric Cobb | IDERA

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Not everyone has a full time database administrator on staff, and in many cases the responsibility of managing the SQL Server falls on the developers. But as long as the backups are running successfully you’re good, right? Not exactly. Your databases could be heading for trouble! Without proper tuning and maintenance, your database performance can grind to a halt. Tailored to the “Non-DBA”, this session will show you how to configure your SQL Server like a DBA would, and why some SQL Servers default settings may be slowing you down. Discussing server settings, database configurations, and recommended maintenance, you will leave this session with the knowledge and scripts you need to help configure your SQL Server instance to fit your workload, and ensure that your SQL Server and databases are running smoothly. View the original webcast: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8360496614712105997

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