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Case study: Spawn your own
Junior DBA with SQL MonitorTjay Belt
Database Administrator at
Imagine Learning
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What to expect
What it is Theory
My ideas
My experiences and stories
Some code / some tools / examples
What it is not Definitive
The only way to solve the issue
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My Goal
Best case scenario for you to be inspired
come up with an idea
help your own shop
At a minimum learn something
not be bored
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3 Laws of Monitoring1. A monitor may not injure a system or, through failure to alert,
allow a system to come to harm
2. A monitor must report on all activities in the system, even where such activities would conflict with the First Law
3. A monitor must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws
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The Ten Commandments
of SQL Server Monitoring• http://alturl.com/rag3h
• Alerts must be actionable
• Alerts must contain sufficient information
• Alerts should not make excessive noise
• Alerts must make enough noise
• Monitor the monitoring server
• More… go check it out
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Basics of Monitoring• Collect
• Review
• Baseline
• Measure
• Report/alert
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Basics of Monitoring Collect
What data is important to collect about your system?
Review You need to look at the data collected, see its story
Baseline From the story told, you can create a baseline
Acceptable behavior, highs, lows
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Basics of Monitoring
Measure History tables. Lots of history tables
Periodic reporting and alerting
Start seeing how often you need to see reports/alerts
Report / Alert Based on acceptable periods, generate reports or alerts
Learn the nuances of said reporting/alerting
Act upon data received
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Collect Collect
What data is important to collect about your system?
Review You need to look at the data collected, see its story
Baseline From the story told, you can create a baseline
Acceptable behavior, highs, lows
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Collect
Data Collection
Data File Sizes
Failed Logins
Powershell
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Collect
SQL Server
Job Notifications
Alerts
Severity 016-025 and Error Number 823-825
Redgate SQL Monitor
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Demo#SQLintheCityUS
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Collect What data is important to collect about your system?
Review You need to look at the data collected, see its story
Baseline From the story told, you can create a baseline
Acceptable behavior, highs, lows
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Review
Data File Sizes
Data Units
Failed Logins
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Collect What data is important to collect about your system?
Review You need to look at the data collected, see its story
Baseline From the story told, you can create a baseline
Acceptable behavior, highs, lows
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Baseline
From the story told, you can create a baseline
Acceptable behavior, highs, lows
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Measure History tables. Lots of history tables
Periodic reporting and alerting
Start seeing how often you need to see reports/alerts
Report / Alert Based on acceptable periods, generate reports or alerts
Learn the nuances of said reporting/alerting
Act upon data received
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Measure
History tables. Lots of history tables
Collect data, store data, archive data, study data
Periodic reporting and alerting
Have initial raw reports for said data
Share this with folks and tweek reports
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Measure
Start seeing how often you need to see
reports/alerts
Look for patterns, highs, lows, appropriate time to share
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Measure History tables. Lots of history tables
Periodic reporting and alerting
Start seeing how often you need to see reports/alerts
Report / Alert Based on acceptable periods, generate reports or alerts
Learn the nuances of said reporting/alerting
Act upon data received
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Report / Alert
Chula Vista reset 11:00pm – 3:00am Told a story with 5 email alerts. Not all night. Still going
Data File Size at 75% Do nothing for a few days, watch, see
Replication Jobs Disabled
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Report / Alert
Monitor Everything email
Monitor Everything Dashboard
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What have we learned?
Start monitoring today…
Break away from the pack…
Architect / Document / Automate
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Thank You!TJay Belt
Cell (801) 735-9439
eMail [email protected]
Blog http://tjaybelt.blogspot.com
Linked In www.linkedin.com/in/tjaybelt
Twitter @tjaybelt
Skype tjaybelt
Google+ link
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