Congratulations, You’re a DBA... Now What?

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Congratulations, You’re A DBA…Now What?

Presented by:

SQL Server MVP, Mike Walsh and John Sterrett

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About Mike Walsh

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• SQL Server MVP Since 2011• Working with SQL Server for 16 years• Partner and Managing Director of the WellDBA™ Practice at Linchpin People• Blog at www.linchpinpeople.com and www.straightpathsql.com• Runs the Seacoast SQL Server User Group alongside Jack Corbett• Speaks at various SQL events• I’ve been a new DBA, a few times. • @Mike_Walsh on twitter

About Linchpin PeopleLinchpin People is a company made up of many SQL Server experts. We have a trade guild mentality –working with the craftsmen in our field on various SQL server challenges. One of our service offerings, the WellDBA Exam™ highlights a lot of the misses of the areas of focus we’re talking about here. We often see the same patterns exist in many environments.

http://www.linchpinpeople.com/

http://www.straightpathsql.com/


About John Sterrett

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• Working with SQL Server for 10 years• Group Principal of the WellDBA™ Practice at Linchpin People • Blogs at www.johnsterrett.com and www.linchpinpeople.com• Tweets at @JohnSterrett• Speaks at a lot of SQL Server conferences• Runs a SQL Server User Group in Austin, TX • Runs the High Availability PASS Virtual Chapter• PASS Regional Mentor for South Central US Region• Co-Author of a book SQL Server 2014 Backup and Recovery• He’s been a new DBA a few times, too.



http://twitter.com/johnsterrett


Let’s start with a story…


“Where Do I Start?”

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“How’s the Sr. DBA?”


Goal #1

Leave As

Advocates

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Goal #2

Leave With

Questions

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Goal #3

Beat Up a MYTH

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“Set It And Forget It”

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“Set It And Forget It”“Set It And Forget It”


Alright… Enough History

Leave As ADVOCATESLeave With QUESTIONS


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database administrator(abbreviated as DBA)(computing) a person

who is responsible for the logical and

physical design of databases, and normally for all aspects of their recoverability,

integrity, security, availability and performance

Source: Wiktionary.Com

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/database

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/administrator

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/DBA

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/logical

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/physical

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/design

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/database

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recoverability

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/integrity

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/security

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/availability

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/performance


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So…Let’s Prioritize


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RecoverabilitySecurity & AuditabilityAvailabilityReliability“Performability”





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“You’re Fired”


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Recoverability


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70% Small Firms done w/in 1yr (DT/PriceWaterHouse)

100% Of Drives Fail

50% Of Tape backups fail to restore(Gartner)


Thinking of Backups

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“How fast will backups be?”“Can I backup to this tape?”“Do We offsite the backups?”“What Kind of Backup?


Thinking of Restores

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“Restore Test Plan?”“Will that tape work in 6 yrs?”“How do we backup?”“What about x or y scenarios?”


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Who’s In Charge??


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Working To Set & Meet

Expectations


Backing Up?

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Agent Alerts Monitoring Tools SQL Scripts Just Do it!


Homework

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Verify you have backups!

Do a test restore (not in production)

Make sure you are on same page with

business around recovery goals.


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Security&

Auditability


Get Auditable

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Secure Your Environment Least Privilege Optimists Need Not Apply Write The Policies FOLLOW The Policies It’s Common Sense


Security

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Identify Threats

Make A Plan

Implement


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Wikimedia.org


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Least PrivilegeGroup BasedRole Based


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Least Privilege


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What is NECESSARY?


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What is NOT NECESSARY?


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Groups & Roles


Homework

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Figure out who is in the SA fixed server role and make sure it makes sense!


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Availability


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“Low” Availability


Homework

Setup SQL Agent alerts.

Look at your error logs!

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High Availability


Homework

Watch John’s intro video

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Reliability


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“HELP! We implemented this

project and….”


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UPDATE ProjectSET NeedDBA =1

WHERE Date < GETDATE()


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Vendor Interview


Homework

Communicate!

Check out the vendor interview

Questionnaire

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“Performability”


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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rsgranne/179319967


Homework

Take a baseline of your performance

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Recoverability

Reliability

Security & Auditability

Availability

Performability


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