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... Database Mail 30How to Configure a SQLServer Agent Operator 43Summary 46Chapter 3: Getting Started with the Maintenance Plan Wizard 47Exploiting the Full Potential of the Wizard 48Investigating ... Brad’s Sure Guideto SQL Server Maintenance PlansBy Brad M. McGeheeFirst published by Simple Talk Publishing 2009Summary 28Chapter 2: Before you Create any Maintenance Plans… 29How to Configure ... During Busy Periods 82Table of ContentsAbout the Author xiiiAcknowledgements xiiiIntroduction 14Who Should Read this Book 15Goals of this Book 16 SQL Server Editions Covered in this Book 16Chapter...
... Unique tothe Maintenance Plan Designer 185Starting the Maintenance Plan Designer 186Exploring the Maintenance Plan Designer 188Object Explorer 189Maintenance Task Toolbox 189Subplans and the ... Task 178Specifying the type of file to delete 180Specifying File Location 180Delete files older than… 181Creating the Job Schedule 183Summary 183Chapter 16: Introduction tothe Maintenance Plan ... 127Overview of the Update Statistics Task 127When and How Often to Update Statistics 129Configuring the Update Statistics Task 131Database Selection 132 The Update Option 132Configuring the Maintenance...
... follows that there are many accidental DBAs out there, who often don't have the knowledge, the experience, or the time to perform the appropriate level of maintenance on their SQL Server databases, ... cases, nobody is looking after the health of theSQL Servers.Millions of SQLServer instances run in the oces of small and medium-sized organizations, more than the total number of instances that ... helping the "accidental DBA" to perform critical maintenance tasks, and so help to ensure SQL Server& apos;s performance and availability. In addition to learning how to use these tools...
... you create backups with the Wizard, this does not ensure that the backups are good (restorable), or that they have been moved off theserverto protect them should theSQL Server instance experience ... Wizard and the Maintenance Plan Designer for SQLServer2005 and SQLServer 2008, including both the Standard and Enterprise editions. If you are running SQLServer 2005, you should be on Service ... using the Maintenance Plan Designer. Many DBAs use the Wizard to create their "base" Maintenance Plan, and then use the Designer to tweak it.• The tool includes an option to create...
... alien to many DBAs. On top of this, the DBA still needs to know T -SQL and SQL Server internals, as well as SQLServer Management Objects (SMO), and the OS Object Model (assuming you decide to ... other SQLServer instances, although multi -server Maintenance Plans can be created.• Bugs in some earlier versions of the Wizard. If you use SQLServer2005Service Pack 2 or higher, or SQL ... scripts may need to be modified (sometimes substantially) to work with the new version.Finally, aside from third-party tools, there is no easy way to automate the execution of your T -SQL maintenance...
... work to find the data on disk and move it tothe data cache, than it would if the pages were in physical order. SQL Server doesn't automatically correct index fragmentation problems. The ... way to remove wasted space and restore the correct page ordering is to rebuild or reorganize the indexes on a regular basis. This requires the DBA to create a maintenance job to perform these ... msdb The SQLServer msdb database stores historical data about various activities, such as details about backups, SQLServer Agent jobs, and Maintenance Plan execution. If left unattended, the...
... used by SQLServerto send messages. In other words, when SQLServer wants to send a message, the message is sent tothe profile, and then the profile is responsible for seeing that the e-mail ... instructed to do so. The lower half of the screen is where we specify the SMTP Authentication options. In most cases, before an SMTP server will accept an e-mail, the sender must log on tothe SMTP server ... permission to route mail tothe SMTP server. • Basic authentication: This is the most common method of authentication, and requires you to provide a user name and password. In most cases, the user...
... means that there is only one attempt made to send an e-mail. If the SMTP server should be down when an e-mail is to be sent, and there are no alternative SMTP accounts available, then the e-mail ... you want to add some robustness to Database Mail, and help ensure that the mail is delivered should the SMTP server go down for a short time, you can choose to increase this value to a higher ... Database Mail parameters for the profile. Generally, we will leave these options at their default values. The only one I suggest you might consider changing is the value of the Account Retry Attempts...
... created and configured. To create a new operator, open SSMS, navigate totheSQLServer instance you wish to configure, open up theSQLServer Agent folder, navigate tothe Operators folder, right-click ... it is there if you need it.Now that we know what an operator is, we need to learn how to create them, because a Maintenance Plan cannot be configured to use an operator until the operator has ... Online that guide you through the troubleshooting process.How to Configure a SQLServer Agent OperatorWhen we configure a Maintenance Plan to send an e-mail, created with either the Maintenance...
... from the beginning. To start the Maintenance Plan Wizard, open SSMS and navigate tothe Maintenance Plans folder of the relevant server (as shown in Figure 3.1) and right-click on this folder to ... what they do, or their pros and cons. There is also no way to determine if the options you choose are even applicable to your situation.This chapter will provide a quick overview of the entire ... with the Maintenance Plan WizardNow that we have all the preliminaries out of the way, we can focus on how to create a Maintenance Plan using the Maintenance Plan Wizard. The marketing story...
... the Maintenance Plan Wizard 55I know of novice DBAs who see the screen in Figure 3.5 and think to themselves, "I'm not sure what all these options mean, so I am going to choose them ... chapter, and then expand on the topic in subsequent chapters.Up until this point I have been referring frequently to Maintenance Plan "tasks," but I have yet to explain what they really ... part at a time. The first thing we need to do is to give our Maintenance Plan a name. The default name is "MaintenancePlan" but I strongly advise you to change this to something more...