The document discusses maintenance plans for SQL Server, detailing their creation, management, and purpose to ensure database performance and availability. It covers tools like the Maintenance Plan Wizard and Designer, and highlights the functionalities and limitations of these tools. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of regular database maintenance tasks such as integrity checks, index maintenance, and history cleanup, while providing resources for further learning.

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5. AGENDA
PHASE ONE –slidetalks
•MP–whatwe aretalkingabout?
•MP –how, where, when?
•MP -methods, tools, right (?) ways
•whatMaintenance Plans can do you You
PHASE TWO –show time
PHASE THREE –discussiontime
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6. PHASE ONE –slidetalks

7. MaintenancePlans–whatwe aretalkingabout?
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8. 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, proactivetask
thatneed to be performedregularlyon databases
to ensuretheiradequate performance and availability
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9. Maintenance Plans –what are you talking about?
•To create or manage maintenance plans you must be a member of the sysadminfixed server role.
•Note that Object Explorer only displays maintenance plans if the user is a member of the sysadminfixed server role.
•The results generated by the maintenance tasks can be written as a report to a text file, or written to the maintenance plan tables, sysmaintplan_logand sysmaintplan_logdetail, in msdb.
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10. MaintenancePlans–how, where, when?
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11. 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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12. HOW: Maintenance Plan Wizard
•Verysimple(althoughadvanced) wizard
•Providingpossibilityfor creationsimpletaskin dozensof seconds
•Enoughin manycases, environments
•Limited but includemanyoptions
•Limitations:
•numberof databases
•granularity
•single tasks/ no multitasking
•no scriptingfor anotherinstances
•someknownproblemsin previousversion of SQL Server
•SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 / SQL Server 2008
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13. HOW: Maintenance Plan Designer
•More flexible and advanced tool (not on this session)
•Graphical user interface with SSIS
•Most often used for „real DBA”
•Increased features
•Workflow for specified tasks with execution plan
•Multitasking
•Two additional Maintenance plans
•ExecuteT-SQL Statement
•Notify Operator
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14. 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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15. 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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16. Maintenance Plan: replacement
•TheSQLServerMaintenanceSolutioncomprisesscriptsforrunningbackups,integritychecks,andindexandstatisticsmaintenanceonalleditionsofMicrosoftSQLServer2005,SQLServer2008, SQLServer2008R2,SQLServer2012,andSQLServer2014.
•Thesolutionisbasedonstoredprocedures,thesqlcmdutility,andSQLServerAgentjobs.Idesignedthesolutionforthemostmission-criticalenvironments,anditisusedinmanyorganizationsaroundtheworld.
•NumerousSQLServercommunityexpertsrecommendtheSQLServerMaintenanceSolution, whichhasbeenaGoldwinnerinthe2013,2012,2011,and2010SQLServerMagazineAwards. TheSQLServerMaintenanceSolutionisfree.
“After you review this checklist run —do not walk —over to this website: http://ola.hallengren.com. Download, read, understand and implement these scripts. My friend Ola has done a better job on these scripts than I’ve seen anywhere else, hands down.”-Buck Woody
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17. (Everything I do) Ido it for you
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18. Maintenance plans: availabletasks
•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| usingmsdb, don’t do that too much frequently
•Execute SQL Server Agent Job | providingscripts using wen youwork with agent
•BackUpDatabase (Full) | executingBACKUP DATABASE with FULL option>>TransactionLog
•BackUpDatabase (Differential) | executingBACKUP DATABASE with DIFFERENTIAL option
•BackUpDatabase (TransactionLog) | executingBACKUP LOG, frequency...
•MaintenanceCleanupTask| most complicated feature ? BAK, TRN, TXT
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19. Functionality: Verify Integrityof Database
•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
Y O U S H O U L D R E M E M B E R
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20. POSSIBILITIES: SHRINK DATABASE
NEVER USE THIS OPTION IN MAINTENANCE PLANS
•AutomatedDatabase Shrinking:
•When the AUTO_SHRINKdatabase option has been set to ON, the Database Engine automatically shrinks databases that have free space.
•This option is set using the ALTER DATABASE statement. By default, it is set to OFF.
•Manual Database Shrinking:
•If a DBCC SHRINKDATABASE or DBCC SHRINKFILE statement cannot reclaim all the specified space in a log file, the statement will issue an informational message that indicates what action you must perform to make more space eligible to be freed.
•When using the DBCC SHRINKDATABASE statement, you cannot shrink a whole database to be smaller than its original size.
•Therefore, if a database was created with a size of 10 MB and grew to 100 MB, the smallest the database could be reduced to is 10 MB, even if all the data in the database has been deleted.
Y O U M U S T R E M E M B E R
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21. POSSIBILITIES: SHRINK DATABASE
Twoverygoodpostsaboutshrinkingdatabasesand otherlinks:
•Shrinking a Database (TechNet):
•http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189080(v=SQL.105).aspx
•Pinal Dave: SQL SERVER –Shrinking Database is Bad –Increases Fragmentation –Reduces Performance
•http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/01/19/sql-server-shrinking-database-is-bad-increases- fragmentation-reduces-performance/
•Brent Ozar: Stop Shrinking Your Database Files. Seriously. Now.
•http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/08/stop-shrinking-your-database-files-seriously-now/
Y O U M U S T R E M E M B E R
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22. POSSIBILITIES: Maintain Index & Column Statistics
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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23. POSSIBILITIES: Reorganize vs rebuild
Reorganize Index Task
Rebuild Index Task
removing empty space and logical fragmentation
Performs a less thorough index defragmentation than Rebuild Index. If an index does not have any fragmentation, then is not reoganized, saving resources.
Virtually all wasted free space and logical fragmentation is removed. All indexes are rebuild from scratch, whether they need it or not.
performance impact
does not require long blocking locks. An online task that allows users to access the database duringthetask
requires potentially long blocking locks that prevent users from accessing the indexes being rebuilt. A task that should be performed offline, though with the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server, you can use the online version of an index
speed
generally takes longer to run that the Rebuild Index Task
Generally runs faster than Reorganize Index Task
space requirements
Uses less disk space that the Rebuild Index Task. Uses less space i the transaction log than Rebuild Index Task
Use more disk space than Reorganize Index Task. More space is required in the transaction log than the Reorganize Index.
statistics maintenance
Index and column statistics must be updated separately. This adds to the administration hassle.
Index and column statistic are automatically updated as part of this step, using FULLSCANN option
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24. POSSIBILITIES: history clean up (MSDB)
Choosingthe data (right data) for deleting:
•Backup and restorehistory
•SQL Server Agent jobhistory
•MaintenancePlan history
Y O U M U S T R E M E M B E R
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25. PHASE two–showtime

26. Summary
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27. PHASE THREE -discussion

28. SUMMARY
•We should remember about:
•Task sequences
•Task execution
•Task priority
•Documentation
•Using: daily / weekly / occasionally
•We getbetterexpoloration of our environment
•We canmonitoring / (partially) of performance and space
•Standard and above (sorry)
•Maintenance Plan Wizard
•for beginners and small installations
•Maintenance Plan Designer
•Adult, more complicated, wide environment
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30. LINKS
•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
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