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Maintenance tasks

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I wanted to know what are the different maintenance tasks that are run on the database servers on regular intervals. The ones I know are database backups, rebuilding indexes on timely manner. I am working on standards, to make them as routine processes.

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asked May 17 '10 at 11:53 AM in Default

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I suggest you add regular Integrity check(Daily or weekly depending on the size of your database) and Disk space monitoring to your maintenance schedule.


Edit: Also Make sure you come up with a plan to test your backups regularly.

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answered May 17 '10 at 12:59 PM

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I missed that there wasn't a consistency check? I am an idiot. That's one of the most important.

May 17 '10 at 01:30 PM Grant Fritchey ♦♦
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I would also add a regular job to update statistics. You may also want to look into policy based management as a way to add another level of checks to everything you do.

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answered May 17 '10 at 12:02 PM

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Hello Grant. Would it be wise to setup an SSIS package to rebuild indexes and then update statistics in one package? And then schedule this package in a SQL job to run on a specified schedule?

May 17 '10 at 01:14 PM Slick84

Yeah, pretty much.

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