SQL estate future planning

• goodtimecharlie

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  November 5, 2024 at 11:20 am

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  Morning all,

  I've inherited a small (on prem) SQL estate.  I'm a DBA, used to looking at one issue at a time as opposed to a big overall strategy.  I've been asked to provide a future planning doc for everything we would like to achieve in the next 3 years.  Just wanted to pick your brains on the kind of things I should think about.  I have some ideas that I don't have the right terminology for & am sure there will be lots I haven't thought about.  So far I have:

  Obsolescence planning & upgrades OS & SQL.

  Automation & standardisation of new installs.

  Review of backup & restore strategies.

  I'd like to intro some sort of SQL estate monitoring software / performance / capacity threshold scripting or software.

  I'd like to make much more use of reporting / expose the data where applicable to the users.

  Consider encryption & data governance.

  Ideas / criticisms / comments gratefully accepted.

  Thanks

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  November 6, 2024 at 12:10 pm

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  Thanks for posting your issue and hopefully someone will answer soon.

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