SQL Server Agent All the Knobs You Need to Know Taiob M Ali

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Agenda Agent Security Schedule when CPU Idle Job History Operators Alerts Proxies

Security-Service Account Should not run as Local System Account Run under domain account but not a member of local admin group Give privilege to “Log on as a service” How to do it?

Security-Users MSDB database roles SQLAgentUserRole SQLAgentReaderRole SQLAgentOperatorRole Details

Agenda Agent Security Schedule when CPU Idle Job History Operators Alerts Proxies

Job Schedule Skip a single run- do not disable job An extra run- add an one time schedule One time job –Delete automatically. Changing standard schedules

Job Schedule- Idle CPU Schedule a job when CPU is idle Create a definition of idle CPU Chose from “Schedule Type”

Job Schedule- Idle CPU Does not work out of the gate CPU Idle definition control schedule Need custom solution

Interval in Seconds Running every 20 Secs—CPU IDLE Definition control job schedule Hour Interval Running every hour—Custom Solution; You control job schedule

CPU Idle condition meet Test Run every 20 sec Job Run FIRE JOB

Control Job run every one hour Disable Job Control Job run every one hour CPU Idle condition meet Test Run every 20 sec Job Run only if Enabled FIRE JOB Enable Job

DEMO– Schedule Job When CPU Idle

Agenda Agent Security Schedule when CPU Idle Job History Operators Alerts Proxies

Job History …History is truncated If bigger than 3998 char get truncated

Why does history get truncated?

Custom Solution More Options Per job category Per job Different threshold for success/failure Default value Details: bit.ly/purgehistory

Driving table

Create two store procedures One will drive DBA_sysjobhistory_driver One will do the purge DBA_sp_jobhistory_row_limiter

Schedule a job

Fail Safe 30 days

Agenda Agent Security Schedule when CPU Idle Job History Operators Alerts Proxies

DEMO-Operators

Built in report 20 most frequently executed jobs 20 most frequently failing jobs 20 slowest jobs based Job Steps Execution History

Agenda Agent Security Schedule when CPU Idle Job History Operators Alerts Proxies

Alert Powerful feature for monitoring SQL Server Event Performance Condition WMI Event-added in 2005 Service broker must be enabled for MSDB Pager and net send options will be removed from SQL Server Agent in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server

DEMO ALERT

Agenda Agent Security Schedule when CPU Idle Job History Operators Alerts Proxies

Proxies-when to Use Jobs are interacting with other network components or machines. .bat file PowerShell script

Proxies-How to set up Create a privileged account Create a credential Create a new proxy Use proxy in job step

DEMO Proxies

Resource Security Considerations - SQL Server Installation SQL Server Agent Fixed Database Roles Script to create alerts by Glenn Berry Custom Category article by Tim Ford Scripts-custom job history retention Deadlock alert blog How to read Deadlock Graph

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