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2 Thank You Sponsors! Visit the Sponsor tables to enter their end of day raffles. Turn in your completed Event Evaluation form at the end of the day in the Registration area to be entered in additional drawings. Want more free training? Check out the Houston Area SQL Server User Group which meets on the 2 nd Tuesday of each month. Details at 5/14/2016

3 Robert M Bishop Senior DBA Consultant, Sparkhound MCSA SQL Server

4 What to do when you are given a SQL Server to manage.

5 Tim Ford, the SQL Agent Man #EntryLevel #iwanttoshare

6 The Handoff What cha got under the Hood? Are all your eggs in one basket? The Doctrine of Infallibility Keys to the Kingdom Padre s Tools for the DBA

7 Gaining Control

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9 Domain Admins DBA Security Group Documentation Policies & Procedures

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11 No Access to Server No Access to SQL Server No known SysAdmin account No known SA password No Documentation No Policies and Procedures

12 No Access to Server Vendor support domain account DOMAIN\support.vendor No Access to SQL Server No known SysAdmin account No known SA password No Policies No Documentation

13 No Access to Server No Access to SQL Server No known SysAdmin account No known SA password No Policies No Documentation

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15 3 rd Party Tools

16 3 rd Party Tools Local Admin method SQL Server Configuration Manager Add Startup parameter -M

17 3 rd Party Tools Local Admin method Startup Parameters -m (2008 R2 and earlier must be listed first)

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19 Start a DOS Prompt with Administrative Privileges Connect to the SQL instance with SQLCMD

20 CREATE LOGIN dude WITH PASSWORD='test', CHECK_POLICY=OFF go exec sp_addsrvrolemember 'dude','sysadmin' go

21 Let s see it in action.

22 Remove start up parameter Restart services Then login to SSMS using new account change SA account password add yourself Add your DBA Security Group

23 Server Authentication??? Check the Registry to see if SQL is in Windows or Mixed mode authentication. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQLServer REG_DWORD: LoginMode = 2 (this is mixed mode)

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27 What are you working with?

28 Physical vs Virtual CPU 32 bit or 64 bit # of Processors vs # of Cores NUMA

29 Edition R Standard cores* 16 cores* Web cores* 16 cores* BI Workgroup cores* 16 cores* Enterprise OS Max OS Max 8 OS Max OS Max Datacenter OS Max Express cores 4 cores Developer OS Max OS Max OS Max OS Max OS Max * Virtual environment capacity limit is based on the number of logical processors, not cores, because the processor architecture is not visible to the guest

30 Physical vs Virtual CPU 32 bit or 64 bit # of Processors vs # of Cores NUMA RAM

31 Edition R * Standard OS Max OS Max 64 GB 64 GB 128 GB Web OS Max 64 GB 64 GB 64 GB BI 64 GB 128 GB Workgroup 3 GB 4 GB 4 GB Enterprise OS Max OS Max 2 TB OS Max OS Max Datacenter OS Max Express 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB 1 GB Developer OS Max OS Max OS Max OS Max OS Max * Per Microsoft, these are the limitations per Instance of SQL Server (not to include SSAS or SSRS)

32 Physical vs Virtual CPU 32 bit or 64 bit # of Processors vs # of Cores NUMA RAM OS Version Standard or Enterprise Drives

33 Release 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014

34 Release 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014 Edition Standard, Enterprise, Web, Business Intelligence, Desktop Engine, Express, Workgroup, Data Center, Azure, Compact, Developer, Embedded, LocalDB, Parallel Data Warehouse, Data Warehouse Appliance Edition

35 Release 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014 Edition Standard, Enterprise, Web, Business Intelligence, Express, Developer, Azure, Desktop Engine, Workgroup, Data Center, Compact, Embedded, LocalDB, Parallel Data Warehouse, Data warehouse Appliance Edition

36 Release 2012, 2014 Edition Standard, Enterprise, Business Intelligence, Developer, Web, Express, Azure, LocalDB Patch Level (Service Packs & Cumulative Updates Per Microsoft SQL Server CUs are certified to the same levels as Service Packs, and should be installed at the same level of confidence. Server Configuration

37 SQL 2014 (64 or 32 bit) Principle Editions Standard Enterprise Business Intelligence Specialized Editions Web Breadth Editions Developer Express

38 Version Current SP/CU Mainstream Extended 2000 SP4 Dead Dead 2005 SP4/CU3 Dead Died 2008 SP4 Done 07/09/ R2 CP3 Done 07/09/ SP3/CU2 7/11/ /12/ SP1/CU6 7/09/ /09/2024

39 You can touch this!

40 Glenn Berry dmv-queries/ Mitch Wheat

41 What exactly is installed?

42 SQL Engine Multiple Instances Database Mail SSRS Native or SharePoint SSAS Multi-dimensional, PowerPivot or Tabular mode SSIS Traditional or SSIS catalog (SQL 2012+)

43 Checking Reliability

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45 Are they even being done? Who? What? When? Where? How?

46 Why do you care about restores? Has it ever been tested? Your backups are only as good as it s ability to restore

47 Do we really need this? Really? Did you just ask that? My Typical Solution? Restore most recent backup to another server (even your workstation if you must) Run DBCC CHECKDB( ) command Verify Database Verify Restore process works

48 Trust, but Verify Ronald Reagan

49 SysAdmins Principle of Least Privileges Db_datareader EXECUTE stored procedures Db_datawriter

50 DEMO TIME

51 Richard Fryar Brent Ozar

52 K.I.S.S. Principle

53 Too many people are way smarter than me! Brent Ozar, Glenn Berry, Paul Randal, Kimberly Tripp Try not to reinvent the wheel! Somebody has done it before you, just give credit where credit is due Blogs, User Group meetings

54 Brent Ozar ( sp_blitz sp_askbrent sp_blitzindex sp_blitzcache Ola Hallengren DBCC CHECKDB Backups Index Maintenance

55 Glenn Berry SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries Mitch Wheat SQL Diagnostic Runner SQL Server Report Steve Smith on/70243/

56 SQL CoPilot Richard $48 per user! Padre s Tools for the DBA

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58 SQL Server Repository Machine Information SQL Information Database Information Owners and Users Log OS Updates Log SQL Patches Password Repository SQL Accounts Service Accounts

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