five steps to being a top dba learning automation in sql server

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Five Steps to Being a Top DBA Learning Automation in SQL ServerJoey D’Antoni

25 March 2015

EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES

Joey D’Antoni

• Joey has over 15 years of experience with a wide variety of data platforms, in both Fortune 50 companies as well as smaller organizations

• He is a frequent speaker on database administration, big data, and career management

• He is the co-president of the Philadelphia SQL Server User’s Group

• MSCE, Business Intelligence

• He wants you to make sure you can restore your data

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Agenda

Everyone is Really Busy

Introduction to Tools

Cool Automation Tricks

Another Tool to Reduce Your Workload

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Does Your Job Feel Like This?You Want to Get to Here


Automation

5https://xkcd.com/1205/


Standards

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Tricks of the Trade

PowerShell SQLCMD DOSDynamic SQL

and Concatenation

Agent Jobs

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PowerShell

A must have for Windows tasks

You can’t automate Azure

without it

SQL PS has some limitations

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SQLCMD

Command Line interface to SQL Server

Very, very powerful

Can integrate with SQL Agent or Windows Scheduler

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DOS

DOS is still alive

Mainly because I haven’t ported all

of my code to PowerShell

Can still be useful—especially

if on older Windows releases

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Dynamic SQL and Concatantion

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--Create the files

WHILE @number_of_files > 0BEGINif @number_of_files = 1 -- main tempdb file, move and re-sizeBEGINSELECT @sql_statement = 'ALTER DATABASE tempdb MODIFY FILE (NAME = tempdev, SIZE = '+convert(nvarchar(25), @individ_file_size) + ', filename = '+nCHAR(39)+@data_file_path+'tempdb.mdf'+nCHAR(39)+',MAXSIZE = '+ convert(nvarchar(25),@individ_file_size) + ', FILEGROWTH = 100MB);';ENDELSE -- numbered tempdb file, add and re-sizeBEGINSELECT @sql_statement = 'ALTER DATABASE tempdb ADD FILE (NAME = tempdev0' + convert(nvarchar(25),@number_of_files)+',filename = '+nCHAR(39)+@data_file_path+'tempdb0' + convert(nvarchar(25),@number_of_files)+'.ndf'+nCHAR(39)+', SIZE = '+ convert(varchar(25), @individ_file_size) + ', MAXSIZE = '+ convert(nvarchar(25), @individ_file_size) + ', FILEGROWTH = 100MB);';END

EXEC sp_executesql @statement=@Sql_StatementPRINT @sql_statement


Agent Jobs

Use the Scheduler

More than jobs—alterting and notifications

Regular Data Collection and Automation

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Now You Have the Tools

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Let’s Build Something Cool


Demo--SQL Server Install and Best Practices

Default SQL Servers installs are a bad thing

Every time someone leaves cost threshold for parellelism at 5, a kitten dies

Let’s fix this..

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Demo--SQLCMD Dynamic SQL for Backups

This is a simple demo of the combination of some dynamic SQL and SQLCMD

Just an example—still schedule as an agent job

Or just use Ola’s script

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Demo--Patching SQL Server

Will use a combination of commands and PowerShell for CU automation

Use PowerShell to verify patch successful and notify admin

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Demo—Availability Groups DB Add

Complex example of T-SQL automation

Some interesting techniques

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Automation

With these tools the only limits are your imagination

Any repetitive tasks can and should be automated

Take advantage of scripting tools

Test, Test, Test and Test some more

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Summary

I didn’t say DevOps—but this is kind of what DevOps is like

Automation makes you a better DBA—you can focus on value added activities like query tuning

Start small (installations) and build your skills to advanced techniques like patching and code deployments

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