New Microsoft SQL Server Video Tutorial: Pt 3 - The Cleanup History, Execute SQL Server Agent job, and Back Up Database Tasks

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This video finishes off the discussion on the individual tasks and ties on with Parts 1 and 2 in this series as the final video on choosing the tasks in the Maintenance Plan Wizard. After watching this video, you'll understand the intricacies of the Cleanup History Task, the SQL Server Agent job Task, and the individual Back Up Database tasks (the Full, Differential, and the Transaction Log).

Included in this video are discussions on how often you should run the Cleanup History Task and how the SQL Server Agent job Task can work in conjunction with your existing jobs. This is definitely one of the best improvements to the Maintenance Plan architecture and allows your maintenance plans to be extensible beyond anything that was available in the SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 Database Maintenance Plans.

Of course, the main features of the Maintenance Plans that most people will use are the Back up Database tasks. This gives us the option for scheduling our full backups, differentials and transaction log backups. Job Schedules for maintaining backups are included and you'll see how the text file reports are generated as well as how the Maintenance Plan Wizard can create separate files for each backup with a time-stamp (DatabaseName_yyyymmddhhmmss.bak, for example).

• Category: Automating SQL Server: SQL Server Agent, Jobs, Email, Alerts and Scheduling
• Skill Level: 100 (Beginner)
• Length: 12:09 (12.1MB)
• Applies to Versions: SQL Server 2005
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