Transcript Tips_that_Saved_my_Bacon_2016_06_04x

Greg Moore
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Operations side DBA
Some Dark Side experience as a C#/VB.Net
Developer
Problem solver
Caver
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Who doesn’t like Bacon?
You can tune a query
You can write CTEs until your eyes bleed
But… will that save your bacon?
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No fancy queries
Some are common sense
Sometimes it’s the little things
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SQL Saturdays
 Like today!
 Albany, NY July 30th
 Network
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#SQLHELP
Local SQL User Group
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(Thanks to the scary biker from hell aka William Wolf)
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Yes, it’s great for Disaster Recovery
What is a disaster?
◦ Building on fire
◦ Server crash
◦ Sure that happens but…
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Forget the huge stuff
What’s likely?
◦ “Oops, I deleted 100 records, what can we do?”
◦ Customer just called, wants to undo a change.
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Yes, it’s that simple!
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Save yourself a step
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You may need more time
◦ Disable job receiver side until done
◦ Don’t forget to enable it!
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Make sure your DR plan takes this into
account
People may come to rely on it
◦ So be Scotty, always estimate longer than it’ll take
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A bit more common
But use separate files for your indices
Don’t put your Clustered index there!
Lots of advantages
USE master
GO
ALTER DATABASE IIS_LOGS ADD FILEGROUP
IndexGroup
GO
ALTER DATABASE IIS_LOGS ADD FILE ( NAME =
N'IIS_Index', FILENAME =
N‘I:\NDF\IIS_Logs_index1.ndf' , SIZE =
102400KB , MAXSIZE = 102400KB , FILEGROWTH =
10%) TO FILEGROUP IndexGroup
GO
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Put NDF file on separate physical disk
◦ (smaller benefit on same disk as logs or data)
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Can have more than one
◦ Can put logs with lots of I/O on faster disks
◦ Readonly indexes on RAID 5 or slower disk
◦ Some recovery scenarios will allow you to at least
read data with a failed index file
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This is one I’m surprised isn’t used more
often
Backup to a network share
◦ Need to setup permissions (SQL Agent I believe)
◦ Normal Backup
 BACKUP DATABASE AuditDB TO DISK =
'C:\Temp\AuditBD_backup_20150530_A.bak'
◦ UNC
 BACKUP DATABASE AuditDB TO DISK =
'\\localhost\LS_Backup\AuditBD_backup_20150530_B.
bak'
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Disadvantages
◦ Slower over wire
◦ Need some more permissions
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Advantages
◦ Can easily add space
◦ If controller or server fails, backups are still
available
◦ Can then backup to tape as convenient
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Experiment I did once
Did Backup over network to 1, 2, 3, 4 NAS
devices
Performance increased by a factor of 2x, 3x,
3.9x
◦ Hit network limits
◦ Complicates restores a bit, but can get nearly linear
improvements in performance
◦ This was before 1GB NICs
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Love them or Hate them?
◦ Yes!
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Can’t control your spindles
BUT, can split off a mirror for a backup
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Client had database (500GB)
◦ 350 GB was audit data
◦ Log-shipping over VPN to DR center a pain
◦ Restoring initial restore was a pain
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Reduce size of main database
Make initial restore faster/smaller
Do so w/o developer input
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Create Database with tables
Create Synonyms
Rename original tables
Copy data over
Caveat: can’t do a truncate
◦ But that’s a WIN here. Truncating an audit table
would be a bad idea!
Create database (we’ll call it Audit)
create synonym AUD_ATI_Forwarding for Audit.dbo.AUD_ATI_Forwarding
INSERT INTO Audit.dbo.AUD_ATI_Forwarding
(OPERATION, FORWARDING_ID, USER_GROUP_ID
,USER_GROUP_ID_FWD, AUD_USER_ACCT_ID, AUD_TIMESTAMP)
Select OPERATION, FORWARDING_ID, USER_GROUP_ID
,USER_GROUP_ID_FWD, AUD_USER_ACCT_ID, AUD_TIMESTAMP
From ExampleCO.dbo.AUD_ATI_Forwarding
exec sp_rename 'AUD_ATI_Forwarding', 'DROP_AUD_ATI_Forwarding'
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Done, or are we?
CREATE Trigger Synonym_safety ON DATABASE FOR DROP_SYNONYM
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON;
declare @recipients nvarchar(200)
declare @subject nvarchar(100)
declare @body nvarchar(1000)
declare @profile_name nvarchar(100)
select @profile_name='sql admins'
select @recipients='[email protected]'
select @subject = 'Alert: Drop Synonym trigger on '+@@servername
select @body ='Someone tried to drop the synonyms on this box. This may be an error, but unless maintenance is being
performed, should be investigated.'
select @body = @body + CHAR(13)+ ' Command text: ' +
EVENTDATA().value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/TSQLCommand/CommandText)[1]','nvarchar(max)')
select @body = @body + CHAR(13)+ ' From SPID: ' + EVENTDATA().value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/SPID)[1]','nvarchar(max)')
select @body = @body + CHAR(13)+ ' User: ' + EVENTDATA().value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/LoginName)[1]','nvarchar(max)')
select @body = @body + CHAR(13)+ ' DBName: ' + EVENTDATA().value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/DatabaseName)[1]','nvarchar(max)')
select @body = @body + CHAR(13)+ ' Posttime: ' + EVENTDATA().value('(/EVENT_INSTANCE/PostTime)[1]','nvarchar(max)')
RAISERROR ('You must disable trigger "Synonym_safety" to drop synonyms!',11, 1) with log
ROLLBACK
exec msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name=@profile_name, @recipients=@recipients,
@subject=@subject, @body=@body, @importance='High'
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Common problem
◦ Too many people have access to the database with
privileges higher than they should!
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Two solutions
◦ Schema Trigger change
 What I’ve done
◦ Events
 What I’ll do next time
CREATE TRIGGER [ddlDatabaseTriggerLog] ON DATABASE
FOR DDL_DATABASE_LEVEL_EVENTS AS
Insert code here
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Useful to see who/what is altering your DDL
Can catch hackers
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Synchronous
May require email
◦ That’s what I’ve got setup
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The Baking DBA
◦ Michael Bourgon
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http://thebakingdba.blogspot.com/search/la
bel/Event%20Notifications
Recommend his talk and his approach
◦ It’s better than mine!
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The defaults are bad!
◦ Some users make them worse
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% Growth is horrible for two reasons:
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1 gig becomes 1.1
1.1 becomes 1.21
1.21 becomes 1.33
1.33 becomes 1.46
1.46 becomes 1.61
1.61 becomes 1.77
1.77 becomes 1.95
1000MB
1210MB
1330MB
1460MB
1610MB
1770MB
1940MB – 1.7x longer
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Size of your log has doubled in 9 growths
Time to grow has increased 1.7x
So only if you need 10MB more, your 9th
growth will give you 200MB!
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ALTER DATABASE IIS_LOGS ADD FILE ( NAME
= N'IIS_Index', FILENAME =
N'C:\NDF\IIS_Logs_index1.ndf' , SIZE =
102400KB , MAXSIZE = 102400KB ,
FILEGROWTH = 10%) TO FILEGROUP
IndexGroup
Change to a reasonable absolute value!
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Big Caveat
◦ Multiple growths can create performance issues
◦ Never set max size equal to the entire disk
 Even better, make it much less
 If you’re not monitoring and you hit it, you can change
it, let it grow while you troubleshoot
 If it’s max and hits it, you’re limited in options (can
add another file group, but that’s overkill!)
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Ok, I’ll admit I “stole” this one from Chris Bell
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Configuration Tools
◦ Protocols
 Force Encryption Yes
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Encrypts, does NOT authenticate
TEST IT
Chris Bell has a talk that covers this!
Use it!
◦ Unless it breaks stuff
◦ Need higher level
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Hopefully you never need them
Most are simple
If you have your own and I can steal them, let
me know!
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Operations side DBA
Some Dark Side experience as a C#/VB.Net
developer lately
Problem solver
[email protected]
@stridergdm
https://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com