Mike's 1 Hour Server session at SQL Saturday 121

1. New
Server
in
an
Hour?
No
Problem!
Mike
Hillwig

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16. Mike
Hillwig
• AKA
The
Cranky
DBA
• SQL
Server
DBA
• Working
with
SQL
Server
since
SQL
7
• Senior
DBA
at
hos?ng
division
of
a
financial
soCware
company
• Working
as
the
lone
SQL
DBA
in
an
army
of
Oracle
DBAs
• Resume
includes
Acme
Packet,
Shawmut
Design
and
Construc?on,
Equitable
Resources
• Currently
managing
~40
instances
and
about
~30
TB

18. Photo
Credit:
Nedra
Isenberg

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26. Obligatory
Social
Networking
Slide
• crankydba.com
• sqlserverpedia.com
• twiVer.com/mikehillwig

27. A
New
Server?
Now?

28. Fear
Not
• You’re
Prepared
• You’ve
done
your
homework
• And
this
is
not
a
crisis

29. How
Do
We
Prepare?
• Advanced
Planning
• Capturing
a
SQL
Config
file
• Collec?ng
the
scripts
you
already
have
• Automa?ng
your
setup
checklist
• Assembling
a
batch
file
• Documen?ng
a
Build
Process
• Having
a
solid
process
ready
to
deploy
• Making
it
so
simple
we
can
delegate
it

30. Assumptions
• Your
Windows/VMWare
Team
can
deploy
quickly
• Storage
isn’t
an
issue
• Install
media
is
readily
accessible
• You
have
a
checklist

31. Why
do
this
for
all
servers?
• Standardize
servers
• Consistency
is
good!
• Easier
to
delegate
to
junior
staff
• Saves
you
tons
of
?me

32. What’s
On
Mike’s
Checklist?
• Install
SQL
• Configure
• Change
file
paths
• Change
default
ports
• Configure
[MODEL]
• Monitor
• Alerts
• Maintain
• Index
Maint
• Backups
• Reboot

33. What
about
maintenance
plans?
• No
• No
• No
• NO
• Use
scripts.
• Maintenance
plans
are
?me
consuming
and
difficult
to
maintain

34. Where
do
we
start?
• Grab
your
config.ini
• Automate!

35. Edit
conHig.ini
File
• Comment
Out
UIMODE="Normal”
• Edit
SQLSVCACCOUNT
• Edit
AGTSVCACCOUNT
• Edit
SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS

36. Tools
We’ll
Use
• SQL
Management
Studio
• Regedit
• SQLCMD
(formerly
OSQL)
• Shutdown
• Notepad
(to
edit
our
batch
files)

37. Script
any
conHiguration

38. Script
SQL
Agent
Jobs

39. For
More
• crankydba.com/go/1HourServer