1. How to perform a health check
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

2. How to perform a health check
Carl Roepe Senior DBA Perimeter DBA, LLC 4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Suite 337 Dunwoody GA 30338
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

3. How to perform a health check
Carl Roepe Senior DBA
Perimeter DBA, LLC
4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Suite 337 Dunwoody GA 30338

4. How to perform a health check
Carl Roepe Senior DBA
Carl has certifications in Microsoft SQL Server from SQL 2008 thru He has served as staff, director, president and CEO of multiple companies managing data on an enterprise levels. His has extensive experience with massive data sets and high volume processing. Some of the industries he has worked in are advertising and marketing, banking, accounting, automotive, health care and professional sports.
Perimeter DBA, LLC
4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Suite 337 Dunwoody GA 30338

5. How to perform a health check
Carl Roepe Senior DBA
MCSE Data Warehousing
MCSE Data Analytics
MCSE Data Platform
Perimeter DBA, LLC
4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Suite 337 Dunwoody GA 30338

6. How to perform a health check
Carl Roepe Senior DBA
MCP Microsoft Certified Professional
MCITP SQL 2008 Business Intelligence Developer
MCITP Database Developer
MCITP Database Administrator
MCSA SQL 2012,
MCSA SQL 2008,
MCTS SQL 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance
MCTS SQL 2008 Database Developer
MCTS SQL 2008 Implementation and Maintenance
Perimeter DBA, LLC
4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Suite 337 Dunwoody GA 30338

7. How to perform a health check
Carl Roepe Senior DBA
I currently provide install, configuration and tuning for Microsoft SQL Server. My primary role is the backend reliability and performance of SQL Server as both a database and analytics engine.
As a secondary role, I am engaged in developing solutions on SSRS, SSAS, Power BI as well as other specialized front-end platforms. From general reporting and analysis to integrated application development.
Perimeter DBA, LLC
4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Suite 337 Dunwoody GA 30338

8. How to perform a health check
Carl Roepe Senior DBA
As an experienced outdoorsman, I love camping, hiking and backpacking. Most of my experience is with the Appalachian mountains and Appalachian trail.
Perimeter DBA, LLC
4780 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Suite 337 Dunwoody GA 30338

9. How to perform a health check
Agenda:
The importance of performing a Health Check
How to run the popular Blitz script
Review the key areas
Save the results for capacity and trending analysis
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

10. How to perform a health check
The importance of performing a Health Check
Records all critical environment specs
Records current SQL settings
Records and reports warnings on Database Level
Records and reports on reliability issues
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

11. How to perform a health check
Records all critical environment specs:
Version
Last Restart
Drive Space
Hardware
Slow reads or writes on a drive
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

12. How to perform a health check
Records current SQL settings
Server Memory
Max Degree of Parallelism
Tempdb
Backup compression
XP_CMDSHELL setting
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

13. How to perform a health check
Records and reports warnings on Database Level:
Fill Factor
Statistics
File growth
Page Verification
Stored procedures WITH RECOMPILE
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

14. How to perform a health check
Records and reports on reliability issues:
DBCC CECKDB
Alerts 19-25
Jobs owned by users that are not SA
Database owner SA
Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC)
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

15. How to perform a health check
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

16. How to perform a health check
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

17. How to perform a health check
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

18. How to perform a health check
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

19. How to perform a health check
Download and unzip the FirstResponderkit.zip
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

20. How to perform a health check
Download and unzip the FirstResponderkit.zip
Contents of FirstResponder.zip:
eBooks
Install scripts
Individual Scripts
Worksheets
Power BI Templates
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

21. How to perform a health check
Install Core Blitz sp’s
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

22. How to perform a health check
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

23. How to perform a health check
Basic Parameters:
@CheckUserDatabaseObjects = 0 – turns off database checks like heaps and triggers.
@CheckServerInfo = 1 - SQL Server version, whether it’s a virtual machine, how much memory it has, and more.
@OutputServerName,
@OutputDatabaseName,
@OutputSchemaName, Outputs to table
@OutputTableName
@IgnorePrioritiesAbove = 50
@IgnorePrioritiesBelow = 50
@Help = 1 – explains the rest of sp_Blitz’s parameters, plus the output columns as well.
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

24. How to perform a health check
Basic Parameters: Filter Objects to Check Table
@SkipChecksServer,
@SkipChecksDatabase,
@SkipChecksSchema, Location of Filter Table
@SkipChecksTable
The table needs to have the fields
ServerName NVARCHAR(128),
DatabaseName NVARCHAR(128),
CheckID INT
We review the contents of that table, and then we’ll skip (or not output) the checks you specify:
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

25. How to perform a health check
Basic Parameters: Filter Objects to Check – Test Conditions
ServerName = ‘MyServer, DatabaseName = NULL, CheckId = NULL
( will not check anything on servername MyServer )
ServerName = NULL, DatabaseName = ‘MyDB’, CheckId = NULL
( will not check MyDB on any server )
ServerName = ‘MyServer’, DatabaseName = ‘MyDB’, CheckId = NULL
( will not check MyDB on MyServer )
ServerName = NULL, DatabaseName = NULL, CheckId = 5
( will skip CheckId 5 on all databases )
ServerName = NULL, DatabaseName = ‘MyDB’, CheckId = 5
( will skip CheckId 5 on MyDB )
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

26. How to perform a health check
Procedure Cache Health Parameters
@CheckProcedureCache = 1, we grab the top resource-intensive plans from the cache and analyze them for common design issues.  We’re looking for missing indexes, implicit conversions, user-defined functions, and more.  This fast scan isn’t incredibly detailed – we’re just looking for queries that might surprise you and require some performance tuning.
@OutputProcedureCache = 1, we output a second result set that includes the queries, plans, and metrics we analyzed.  You can do your own analysis on these queries too looking for more problems.
@CheckProcedureCacheFilter Can be CPU, Reads, Duration, ExecCount, or null.  If you specify one, we’ll focus the analysis on those types of resource-intensive queries (like the top 20 by CPU use.)  If you don’t, we analyze the top 20 for all four (CPU, logical reads, total runtime, and execution count).  Typically we find that it’s not 80 different queries – it’s usually queries that dominate all of the metrics.
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

27. How to perform a health check
EXEC = = 1;
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

28. How to perform a health check
EXEC = = 1;
Output Results:
Priority
FindingsGroup
Finding
DatabaseName
URL
Details
QueryPlan
QueryPlanFiltered
CheckID
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

29. How to perform a health check
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

30. How to perform a health check
Findings Groups & Number of Tests
Backup 7
Configuration 1
Corruption 3
Encryption 1
Features 1
File Configuration 3
Global Trace Flag 1
High Availability 1

31. How to perform a health check
Findings Groups & Number of Tests
Informational 10
In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) 1
Licensing 2
Monitoring 3
Non-Active Server Config 1
Non-Default Database Config 14
Non-Default Database Scoped Config 4
Non-Default Server Config 73
Outdated sp_Blitz 1
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

32. How to perform a health check
Findings Groups & Number of Tests
Performance 70
Query Plans 6
Reliability 36
Security 10
Server Info 14
Surface Area 1
Wait Stats 3
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

33. How to perform a health check
Saving Results to Excel
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

34. How to perform a health check
Saving Results to Excel
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

35. How to perform a health check
Saving Results to Excel
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

36. How to perform a health check
Saving Results to Excel
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

37. How to perform a health check
Saving Results to Excel
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

38. How to perform a health check
Bonus - URL’s 
Room - Cliffs of Insanity 10:30am
Atlanta SQL Saturday # 733 May 19, 2018 at Gwinnett Technical College – Alpharetta
2875 Old Milton Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30009

39. How to perform a health check
The importance of performing a Health Check
Critical environment specs
Current SQL settings
Warnings on Database Level
Reliability issues
Room May 4, 12:15 pm
Jacksonville SQL Saturday # 820
The University of North Florida Campus
1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

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