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m.esteghamat
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47 Posts

Posted - 2014-12-15 : 02:01:52
Hi
I get a dba vacation in new office.
Please say me first and important steps for dba in new Office.
Whitch imfomation , I should get and what are most periority tasks.
thank you.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2014-12-15 : 12:01:16
I start by looking at the jobs, checking how maintenance type tasks are handled. I checked the Error Logs to see if there are any immediate issues. I check the load on the server. I get a sense for how busy it is, checking blocking, wait stats, PerfMon, etc. I check database properties, sp_configure, LPIM and other settings. I check how alerts are configured.

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/
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m.esteghamat
Starting Member

47 Posts

Posted - 2014-12-16 : 03:38:36
thank you
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m.esteghamat
Starting Member

47 Posts

Posted - 2014-12-20 : 03:54:41
I Review The jobs. And in second step, I Looked at sql server Logs. 2 error messages repeated again and again.
- Login failed for user '.. a username$'. Reason: Could not find a login matching the name provided. [CLIENT: 82.99.193...]
- Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 5.
and I say that user name are 3 users like 3 server name : such this : domainName\server1name
and in application name wroted : "report server"
please say me about this messages .
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m.esteghamat
Starting Member

47 Posts

Posted - 2014-12-22 : 08:40:04
I found it.
We have 3 another servers that have linked server to this server.
and on these servers were run "report server" service that we do not need . I Stoped that services and stoped these errors .
bye
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m.esteghamat
Starting Member

47 Posts

Posted - 2015-01-04 : 06:36:15
I monitored this counter :
- Page life expectancy . and in docs told that good values should more than 300 seconds.
Questions :
1- is this value in milisecond
2- in our server this counter is 3.524.933 !! is it real. means that a page remain in memory for 3000 seconds?
thank you
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2015-01-05 : 13:12:41
300 seconds was the minimum value MANY YEARS AGO and no longer applies. The new recommendation is to watch it over time to know YOUR baseline. I believe Jonathan from SQL Skills has a calculation you can use though.

1. It's in seconds.
2. The highest value I've seen was around 100,000. If you've got values over 3 million, you've got a ton of memory for the database size. This is great!

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/
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m.esteghamat
Starting Member

47 Posts

Posted - 2015-01-10 : 03:19:44
Hi tkizer - Thankyou for your Help.
You wrote useful steps for start database administration in new Office : (I have some questions-...)
1- I start by looking at the jobs, checking how maintenance type tasks are handled.
>>(I done step 1 . (look at all jobs - some of these are about Backup , Reindex , ... and some about Business) - It's ok)
2- I checked the Error Logs to see if there are any immediate issues.
>>(I checked it. that's ok.)
3-I check the load on the server. I get a sense for how busy it is, checking blocking, wait stats, PerfMon, etc.
>>(How can I do it ? How do I check Blocking for example in one week ago? ... which counters I should Check It? and .. )
I will ask about steps 4 and 5 detail , later .
Thank you again .
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m.esteghamat
Starting Member

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Posted - 2015-01-14 : 04:20:23
Hi
I know these are beginners questions.
But show me guideline about this question. (last post. step 3)
Thank you
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