Data Management Solutions
We glad to offer our ussual arrangements for support SQL Server- generaly,
monthly and daily
Initial arrangements
- Automate all possible jobs and maintenance plans on the server for things
like database backups, integrity checks, automatic shrinking, transaction log
backups, etc.
- Install SQL Mail on all your production servers for getting notifications
on email.
- Through SQL Mail, we set up email notifications for all the jobs and
maintenance plans on the production server - for every database. Also we set
up email notifications to be notified in case of a severity alert - like file
growing large and thus reducing disk space, etc.
- Set the MSSQL and SQL Server Agent services to Auto-start when the server
starts.
- Create initial list of servers, databases, users,logins/passwords, etc and
store it in secure place
Monthly arrangements
- Backup Verification - Verify backups on a regular basis
- Review changes in list of servers, databases, users,logins/passwords, etc
- Create a prognos for increasing filesize of databases, execution time of
query and another factors witch affects to database avability and performance
- Windows, SQL Server or Application Updates - Check for service
packs/patches that need to be installed on SQL Server from either a hardware,
OS, DBMS or application perspective
- Fragmentation - Review the fragmentation for your databases to determine
if you particular indexes must be rebuilt based on analysis from a backup SQL
Server.
- Security - Remove unneeded logins and users for individuals that have left
the organization, had a change in position, etc.
- Shrink databases - If databases or transaction logs are larger, than
necessary shrink those files to free up disk space.
Daily arrangements
- Check the connectivity of each server over the network.
- Check whether the services are running.
- Check whether the scheduled tasks on the production servers are running
normally.
- Check the hard disk space available on the SQL Servers.
- Check all the database and transaction log space on each server.
- Check Windows event Logs for any error messages.
- Check SQL Error Logs for any errors occurring within SQL Server.