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SQL Server Tutorial: Pt. 1 - Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plans

   Chapter: Automating SQL Server: SQL Server Agent, Jobs, Email, Alerts and Scheduling
Download! Skill Level: 200 (Beginner - Intermediate)
Duration: 12:11
Size: 11.2MB
Versions/Editions Covered: SQL Server 2005
Added/Updated: Aug 03, 2006

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Maintenance Plans (and the Maintenance Plan Wizard) are not new in SQL Server; Microsoft introduced Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 7.0 as a great way to automatically schedule common DBA tasks such as backups. In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has really listened to its customers and vastly improved the Maintenance Plans (and wizard). If you've used Maintenance Plans in the past, things have changed considerably but for the good.

This video walks you through (1) what maintenance plans are, (2) launching the Maintenance Plan Wizard, and the basic choices of the wizard. There are so many choices in the Maintenance Plan Wizard that this video can only cover so many; the remaining videos of the series will help you walk through all of the choices in the maintenance plans. This particular video focuses on the "Check Database Integrity" choice including a walk-through of DBCC CHECKDB and what impact selecting this option may have on your server and a discussion on how often you'll want to schedule this option.

Another option covered in this video is the "Shrink Database" task along with Scott Whigham's discussion of Best Practices for shrinking databases.
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This video is part of the following video series: "Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 2005"
This series shows you all the changes to Maintenance Plans and the Maintenance Plan Wizard in SQL Server 2005 including the new SSIS-based interface for modifying Maintenance Plans. Because Maintenance Plans have been so vastly improved in SQL Server 2005, even experienced administrators should consider reviewing this series of videos.
To view all videos in this series, click here

About the Instructor:
Scott Whigham Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott Whigham's full bio can be found on the About the Author page)

   
 
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