Video:
Pt. 3 - The Cleanup History, Execute SQL Server Agent job, and Back Up Database Tasks
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Skill level:
200 (Beginner - Intermediate)
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Run Time:
12:09
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Instructor:
Scott Whigham
Description:
This video finishes off the discussion on the individual tasks and ties on with Parts 1 and 2 in this section as the final video on choosing the tasks in the Maintenance Plan Wizard.
After watching this video, you'll understand the intricacies of the Cleanup History Task, the SQL Server Agent job Task, and the individual Back Up Database tasks
(the Full, Differential, and the Transaction Log).
Included in this video are discussions on how often you should run the Cleanup History Task and how the SQL Server Agent job Task can work in conjunction with your existing jobs.
This is definitely one of the best improvements to the Maintenance Plan architecture and allows your maintenance plans to be extensible beyond anything that was available in
the SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 Database Maintenance Plans.
Of course, the main features of the Maintenance Plans that most people will use are the Back up Database tasks. This gives us the option for scheduling our full backups, differentials
and transaction log backups. Job Schedules for maintaining backups are included and you'll see how the text file reports are generated as well as how the Maintenance
Plan Wizard can create separate files for each backup with a time-stamp (DatabaseName_yyyymmddhhmmss.bak, for example).
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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
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NOTE: This video is part of our
SQL Server 2005 Database Administration course.
This video is from Chapter
10:
Automating SQL Server: SQL Server Agent, Jobs, Email, Alerts and Scheduling
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