SQL Server Tacklebox Essential Tools and Scripts for the day-to-day DBA Rodney Landrum High Performance SQL Server ISBN: 978-1-906434-24-3... SQL Server Tacklebox Essential Tools and S
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Tacklebox
Essential Tools and Scripts for the day-to-day DBA
Rodney Landrum
High Performance SQL Server
ISBN: 978-1-906434-24-3
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Tacklebox
Essential Tools and Scripts for the day-to-day DBA
By Rodney Landrum
First published by Simple Talk Publishing 2009
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ISBN 978-1-906434-24-3
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Technical Review by Shawn McGehee
Cover Image by Paul Beckman
Edited by Tony Davis
Typeset by Gower Associates
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About the author vi
About the technical reviewer vi
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction viii
Code Download x
Chapter 1: Eating SQL Server installations for breakfast 11
Specification, installation, configuration 12
Specifying the physical server 12
Ready to install – almost 14
Installation done, now to configure 19
Bon Appétit 31
Chapter 2: The SQL Server landscape 32
What information is required? 33
Automating information retrieval 44
Summary 59
Chapter 3: The migratory data 61
Mapping out the data migration solution 62
The data source 63
Bulk data transfer tools 64
SSIS 72
Data comparison tools 78
"High Availability" tools 84
Summary 93
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Common causes of space issues 95
Being a model DBA 96
Indexes and large row counts 107
TempDB 115
A query to determine current space utilization 119
Summary 122
Chapter 5: DBA as detective 123
System tables versus DMVs 123
Tracking down database performance issues 124
Automating discovery of problems 136
Summary 143
Chapter 6: Monitoring and notifications 145
Types of monitoring and notifications 145
Enabling notifications 148
Backup failure notification 154
Performance issues 159
Stopped services and disk space shortage 166
Summary 168
Chapter 7: Securing access to SQL Server 169
Overview of security challenges 169
Finding SQL logins, Windows users and groups 171
Find Windows Active Directory group membership 175
Find SQL users at the database level 179
Loading up the DBA repository with security data 182
Finding service accounts with WMIC 182