You're reading from SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide A definitive guide for DBAs to implement, monitor, and maintain enterprise database solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954326

Length 522 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Database Administration

Authors (2):

Marek Chmel

Vladimír Mužný

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance

5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery

6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server

7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options

8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance

9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade

11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features

13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it

14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure

15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server

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Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019

A lot of administrator tasks are executed regularly and it's inconceivable to run these tasks manually. SQL Server offers a dedicated service called SQL Server Agent, helping us to automate many common tasks. Along with this service, a very helpful tool called the maintenance plan was developed to support regular tasks that should be run against each database.

In this chapter, we will learn what SQL Server Agent is and how to set up this service from reliability and security perspectives. We will also set up Database Mail to keep a tab on things if they go wrong. We will also look at Maintenance Plans. A maintenance plan is a powerful tool that helps administrators decide on the tasks that are required to maintain healthy databases and protect databases from data loss and performance degradation. It has a relatively simple wizard that covers very complicated tasks.

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