Hi,
The company I work for has owned Microsoft SQL Server for some time now, but has never employed a DBM to manage it properly. We're a small shop and primarily rely on tape back-up and have no maintenance plan to keep the system running at optimum.
We've upgraded now to SQL 2005, and I'm taking on the task of defining a maintenance plan so that we don't run into the same problem as before.
I'm fairly new to SQL though and don't feel that I know enough to make judgement calls on some of the settings. The Wizard is useful but I feel compelled to always use the default.
My question is this, does anyone know of good online resources available that can help me fit a maintenance plan to the needs of my shop? Or know of resources that could just provide more information on what each component means and what effect tuning will have?
Thanks,
Mike
The company I work for has owned Microsoft SQL Server for some time now, but has never employed a DBM to manage it properly. We're a small shop and primarily rely on tape back-up and have no maintenance plan to keep the system running at optimum.
We've upgraded now to SQL 2005, and I'm taking on the task of defining a maintenance plan so that we don't run into the same problem as before.
I'm fairly new to SQL though and don't feel that I know enough to make judgement calls on some of the settings. The Wizard is useful but I feel compelled to always use the default.
My question is this, does anyone know of good online resources available that can help me fit a maintenance plan to the needs of my shop? Or know of resources that could just provide more information on what each component means and what effect tuning will have?
Thanks,
Mike
