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

2. About Me 10 Years as DBA MCSA SQL Server 2012 Certified MongoDB DBA
11 Years in Merchant Marine
Education Naval Science and Computer Science

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

4. 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?

5. Security-Users MSDB database roles SQLAgentUserRole SQLAgentReaderRole
SQLAgentOperatorRole
Details

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

7. 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

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. DEMO– Schedule Job When CPU Idle

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

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

17. Why does history get truncated?

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

21. Driving table

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

23. Schedule a job

24. Fail Safe 30 days

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

26. DEMO-Operators

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

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

29. 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

30. DEMO ALERT

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

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

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

34. DEMO Proxies

35. 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

36. @SqlWorldWide
linkedin.com/in/taiobali
sqlworldwide.com

38. I am Thankful to Robert Padilla Mike Hillwig Adam Machanic
Jeremy Lowell
Suneel Mundlapudi
Ayman El-Ghazali
Kenneth Fisher