Maintenance tasks and questions

  • What sort of standard day to day maintenance are most common in maintaining a healthy SQL Server?

    Currently I'm doing backups, doing an integrity check, and rebuilding indexes/updating statistics as needed. Anything I'm missing?

    Also, while the maintenance plan wizards make this sort of thing easy, I still have a few questions. Ideally, I'd like the server to only email me if there's a problem. While I can have it only email me if a maintenance job fails to run, I don't think that's quite what I want. For example, the job that checks integrity could successfully run, but it could find a problem. Does that trigger the "when the job fails", if an integrity issue is found? Or does it consider the job to check the integrity was successful?

  • Create a maintenance plan with Check Database integrity task ..and put a notification on the job that when it fails it will send you an email..Whenever the DBCC Checkdb gives an error you will be notified.

  • Use SSIS for setting up maintainance jobs. It gives you a whole lot of options. Even if you create a maintainance plan it will internally create a SSIS packages to get that task done.

    Just go through the creating a package for Maintainance purpose and you will find a lot of options.

    Hope it helps.

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