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Tech·Ed North America 2009 Paul Filmalter PFE Microsoft DAT307 4/19/2017 7:23 PM Microsoft SQL Server Automation on Steroids, Including PowerShell Support Paul Filmalter PFE Microsoft DAT307 © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Everyone is being called on to administer more servers, databases, and applications

You’re looking for ways to cope with keeping your systems up and running

How do you go from what you know from SQL Server 2000 and 2005…

To taking control of your environment with the new features in SQL Server 2008 and from our partners?

Maximizing task automation 4/19/2017 Agenda Server Provisioning DB Mail Review Configure Using Resource Governor Maintenance Plans Flow Control PowerShell By Example PowerShell Subsystem SQL Sentry Execution Maximizing task automation

4/19/2017 7:23 PM partner Microsoft IT http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687798.aspx © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

MSIT Standard Server Provisioning 21 Day Backup Plan One disk holds seven days of backups - one full, and six days of differentials Switch disks every seven days Transaction logs go to a different disk Purge on drive rotation On Demand Jobs Cleanup backup history DBCC All IndexDefrag UpdateStats IndexRebuild Includes exception lists For SharePoint Index defrag and maintenance, see: http://tinyurl.com/5snm3d

Configuring Database Mail for SQL Agent 4/19/2017 7:23 PM demo Configuring Database Mail for SQL Agent © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

What Did We See? Configuring DB Mail via the wizard Using Hotmail as your SMTP server Examples of sending mail Hooking up SQL Agent to send mail

Maximizing task automation 4/19/2017 Agenda Server Provisioning DB Mail Review Configure Using Resource Governor Maintenance Plans Flow Control PowerShell By Example PowerShell Subsystem SQL Sentry Execution Maximizing task automation

Resource Governor Shared resources (CPU / Memory / IO) Concepts Resource - Physical Resources Workload - Container for Sessions Classifier Function - Incoming request classifier SQL Engine Only Per Instance

Using Resource Governor to Throttle Jobs 4/19/2017 7:23 PM demo Using Resource Governor to Throttle Jobs © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Resource Governor Recap Creating Pool and Workload Group for Jobs Using Classifier Function Verifying the results

Inside of Maintenance Plans 4/19/2017 7:23 PM demo Inside of Maintenance Plans © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

What Did We See? Creating Maintenance Plans in SSMS Using sub plans for segmenting multi-server plans Importing plans into SSIS Debugging plans in SSIS Exporting plans to another instance and cleaning up the result

Maintenance Plans Strategies When to use them Great for small shops – create/schedule/forget Easy way to manage multiple instances with sub-plans Easy way to cover all user database objects with DB iteration in SSIS Combined with SSIS additional functionality When to avoid them When you want to share them – no scripting When SQL Authentication is your only option

Maximizing task automation 4/19/2017 Agenda Server Provisioning DB Mail Review Configure Using Resource Governor Maintenance Plans Flow Control PowerShell By Example PowerShell Subsystem SQL Sentry Execution Maximizing task automation

Powershell Our new scripting way in Windows Build in most of our new stuff Run on / Build into Requires (.NET 2.0) CMDLETS Object based 4 Most Important CMD

demo PowerShell Overview 4/19/2017 7:23 PM © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

What Did We See? Shell profile customization SQLPS launched from SSMS where server treated like a drive Command piping, conditions, sorting, output columns, output to HTML Calling WMI to list server instances Integration with .Net libraries PowerGUI.Org Chad Miller’s SQLPSX http://sqlpsx.codeplex.com/

What Did We See? Shell profile customization SQLPS launched from SSMS where server treated like a drive Command piping, conditions, sorting, output columns, output to HTML Calling WMI to list server instances Integration with .Net libraries PowerGUI.Org Chad Miller’s SQLPSX http://sqlpsx.codeplex.com/

Using the PowerShell Agent Subsystem 4/19/2017 7:23 PM demo Using the PowerShell Agent Subsystem © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

What Did We See? Review of Agent’s subsystems Using the PowerShell subsystem Executing script fragments Executing script files Using a proxy account for script execution Enterprise Policy Based Management on CodePlex scripts - http://www.codeplex.com/EPMFramework Note Each job step launching sqlps consumes ~20MB

SQLSentry for SQL Server 4/19/2017 7:23 PM partner SQLSentry for SQL Server http://www.sqlsentry.net © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

SQLSentry Chaining, Eventing, and Queuing

Check out ActiveBatch.Com Centralized Job Scheduling SQL Job management Execution history Job designer PS Script integration In the Vendor Expo Hall

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