At my first official DBA job, I was being trained the current DBA on deploying stored procedures. They had system where you received a ticket with the SQL file attached. You proceed to see if the procedure existed and if it did. You right click on it and look at
Monitoring Availability Groups can be tricky. The DMVs don’t update the log_send_rate and redo_rate all the time especially if nothing is happening so if you try to use those for calculations when monitoring you could false results worse yet pages in the middle of the night. In order to calculate the log_send_rate
Update: From time to time I get questions on this blog post and since I have wrote it dbatools has come out with method do this and if you have not checked out dbatools you should. Click here to get started with dbatools and here (Invoke-DbaQuery) to see the function
Paul Randal recently won the award for “Person You’d Most Like to be Mentored By” in the Tribal Awards, now Paul is offering to mentor 3 men and 3 women for two months. To get a chance of getting mentored by Paul, you simply need to apply by writing a blog post about
At a previous job I had several developers that had passwords for SQL authenticated accounts for systems that would give them more access than they needed when they had Windows accounts that would give them enough to troubleshoot issues. Our trick was to write a login trigger that would block
Troubleshoot data integration issues Performance issues Performance Counters (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms137622.aspx) Connectivity issues Execution of a task or transformation failed Logic issues Demonstrate awareness of the new SSIS logging infrastructure (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms140246.aspx) Troubleshoot a failed package execution to determine the root cause of failure Troubleshoot SSIS package failure from an invalid datatype
Install and maintain Data Quality Services Installation prerequisites (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492277.aspx#PreInstallationTasks) Server – Min 2 GB, Rec 4 GB+ RAM, SQL Server 2012 Database Engine Client – .NET Framework 4, IE 6.0 SP1+ Use Data Quality Server Installer Install Data Quality Services Run DQSInstaller.exe Add users to the DQ roles (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213045.aspx) IN
Design data flow Define data sources and destinations (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms140080%28v=sql.110%29.aspx) Distinguish blocking and non-blocking transformations Integration Services: Performance Tuning Techniques Understanding SSIS Data Flow Buffers (SQL Server Video) Use different methods to pull out changed data from data sources Change Data Capture Run sys.sp_cdc_enable_db on database then for each table
Design control flow Determine control flow (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms137681.aspx) Determine containers and tasks that are needed Tasks (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms139892.aspx) Execute SQL, Execute Package, Execute process File System task Send mail task Task grouping Containers (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms137728.aspx) Sequence (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms139855.aspx) For loop (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms139956.aspx) Foreach loop (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141724.aspx) Determine precedence constraints (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141261.aspx) Simple – Tasks execute in
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is brought to us by Jason Brimhall. We are writing about times someone took chances with the databases that the DBAs felt were not worth it. I am going to talk about taking chances with your backups, our #1 job as DBAs is to have backups.