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1 163 A Activity Monitor, CPU utilization, 105 disk I/O, 104 memory pressure, 105 Recent Expensive Queries, 105 Resource Waits section, 105 addictions to food/caffeine, 121 administrator, database see DBA alerts, reviewing alert system, 26 attending events improving communication skills, availability HA (high availability), B BAARF Party, 40 backups checking database backups, 17 choosing RAID level, 42 monitoring, 98 RAID, 36 baselining environment, 20 benchmarking SAN (storage area network), 44, 45 blogging improving communication skills, 146, 149 bottlenecks troubleshooting issues with SQL Server, breakfast making better choices, buffer manager SQLServer:Buffer Manager, 103 buffer pool troubleshooting SQL Server issues, 99 business needs understanding needs of developers, C caching RAID, 38 calories, 128 Carstarphen, Sylvester choosing profiler carefully, 113 communication skills, 92 service-level agreements, 83 certification becoming a DBA, 9 10 training, 140 change, drivers of, clustering, four-node cluster, 47 code reviews, 78 communication establishing support processes, 87 importance of, improving communication skills, attending events, reading, speaking, writing, language barriers, 92 managing expectations, training benefits to employees, 136 work/life balance, 88 compliance issues training benefits to employer, 137 conversation starters networking, 155, 156 CPU utilization Activity Monitor, 105 Dynamic Management Views,

2 164 Reliability and Performance Monitor, 102, 103 SQL Profiler, 114 troubleshooting issues with SQL Server, 100 Wait stats, 110 customer satisfaction reasons for training, 134 customers building list of customers, 18 listing important databases, 20 meeting with, 24 re-reading before sending to, 85 service-level agreements, 68 D data columns, event classes SQL Profiler, 111, 112 data files choosing RAID level, 41 database administrator see DBA database mirroring, databases checking backups, 17 creating list of ervers, infrequently used but critical, 19 listing important databases, 19 verifying restore, 18 DBA acronym expansions of DBA, 56 becoming a DBA, 1 11, 159 author s journey, 1 5 certification, 9 10 community, 5 other journeys, 5 7 preparation, 8 9 training, 9 value of shadowing, 4 being DBA, 160 blame vs. credit, change, drivers of, continuing as, 160 dangerous jobs, 117 demonstrating your value, 17, 61 establishing support processes, helping others, 145 importance of communication, improving communication skills, managing expectations, outsourcing, proactive monitoring, 97 roles of, 57 service-level agreements, 67 70, SQL knowledge, standards and processes, 59 supporting production systems, taking care of yourself, time management, training, troubleshooting, understanding needs of developers, what to wear to the office, 146 work/life balance, working with colleagues, being right vs. being liked, 62 maintaining standards, 59 resistance to change, taking the blame, DBA tasks alerts, baselining environment, 20 building list of customers, 18 checking database backups, 17 composing recovery plan, 21 creating list of servers, initial checklist, listing deliverables, 20 listing important databases, 19 listing projects, 20 meeting colleagues, meeting customers, 24 meeting developers, 23 meeting manager, 22 meeting server administrators, 23 operational/non-operational tasks, 91 proactive approach, tracking personal progress, 32 verifying database restore, 18 deliverables listing deliverables, 20 developers business needs, meeting with, 23 pressure on, understanding needs of, development professional development, 133 development servers needs of developers, 64, 65

3 165 development systems service-level agreements, diagnostics tools for diagnosing performance issues, disaster recovery see DR disk I/O Activity Monitor, 104 Dynamic Management Views, 106 Reliability and Performance Monitor, 102 SQL Profiler, 113 SQLServer:Buffer Manager, 103 SQLServer:PhysicalDisk, 102 troubleshooting issues with SQL Server, 99 Wait stats, 109 disk striping see striping disks RAID, distributor, replication, 50 DR (disaster recovery) composing recovery plan, 21 HA and DR, 46 planning, SAN replication, 49 testing, 53 drinking happy hours, 124 DMV (Dynamic Management Views), CPU utilization, 107 disk I/O, 106 memory pressure, 107 E eating addictions to food/caffeine, 121 breakfast, emotional eating, food as a drug, happy hours, 124 lunch, 123 overcoming bad habits, overindulgence, traveling and, unconscious eating, establishing support processes, 85 re-reading before sending to customers, 85 reviewing alert system, 26 emotional eating, environment, baselining, 20 estimations, managing, 73 event categories SQL Profiler, 110 event classes RPC:CompletedEvent, 112 Showplan All Event, 114 SP:BatchCompleted, 112 SQL Profiler, 110, 111 events, attending improving communication skills, exercise, regular exercise, 126 walking, 126 expectations, managing, F fault tolerance RAID, food see eating forums improving communication skills, 148 troubleshooting, 115 G Gennick, Jonathan angry developers, 65 conversation starters, 31 dangerous jobs, 117 exercise, 125 increasing confidence in public speaking, 151 making your own luck, 4 RAID 5 and BAARF Party, 40 reaction-oriented monitoring, 98 selling your value, 17 server administrators, 23 SQL and SQL Server, 67 staying calm, 82 taking care of yourself, 130 today to-do lists, 90 what to wear to the office, 146 Gorman, Tim re-reading before sending to customers, 85

4 166 H HA (high availability), clustering, database mirroring, DR and HA, 46 log shipping, replication, Hansen, Chris code reviews, 78 happy hour making better choices, 124 health considerations taking care of yourself, calories, 128 exercise, food, sleep, 127 help desk service-level agreements, 84 helping other DBAs, 145 high availability see HA I incidents see troubleshooting industry trends professional associations, 152 in-service training, 139 introversion meeting colleagues, 29 I/O see disk I/O J job satisfaction training benefits to employees, 135 job security outsourcing, 93 L lists to-do lists, 77 log files choosing RAID level, 41 log shipping, logical units (LUNs), 43 lunch making better choices, 123 M manager meeting with, 22 MAXDOP setting, 110 Mayo Clinic emotional eating, 119 memory pressure Activity Monitor, 105 Dynamic Management Views, 107 Reliability and Performance Monitor, 103 SQL Profiler, 113 troubleshooting issues with SQL Server, 99 Wait stats, 109 merge replication, 50 metrics demonstrating your value, 61 mirroring database mirroring, RAID, 38, 39 morale training benefits to employer, 137 motivation training benefits to employees, 135 N networking (with people), approaching others, building networks, choosing where to network, 157 communication skills, conversation starters, 155, 156 feeling comfortable, open/closed groups, 156 professional associations, social networking, 154 networks, O outsourcing, job security, 93 language barriers, 92 operational/non-operational tasks, 91 quality of work, 91 security, 93 Ozar, Brent assuming SAN is variable, 45 value of life experience, 7 value of shadowing, 4

5 167 P parallelism, 110 parity RAID, 38 striping with parity, 40 PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server), 30, 139 improving communication skills, 152 perfmon see Reliability and Performance Monitor performance RAID, 37 38, 39 SAN (storage area network), 44 performance issues SQL Profiler causing, 112 tools for diagnosing/troubleshooting, Activity Monitor, Dynamic Management Views, Reliability and Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler, Wait stats, Performance monitor see Reliability and Performance Monitor pressure understanding needs of developers, priorities alerts, 25 meeting with manager, 22 service-level agreements, 68, 83 proactive approach, proactive monitoring, 97 process efficiency training benefits to employees, 135 processes defining, establishing support processes, publishing, 87 reminding people about, 87 production systems, supporting, establishing support processes, outsourcing, service-level agreements, work/life balance, Professional Association for SQL Server see PASS professional associations improving communication skills, industry trends, 152 speaking opportunities, 153 training resources, 139 writing opportunities, 153 professional development, 133 continuing as DBA, 161 Profiler see SQL Profiler projects listing projects, 20 managing expectations, 72 public speaking increasing confidence in, 151 publisher, replication, 50 R RAID, caching, 38 choosing RAID level, fault tolerance, importance of, 36 mirroring, 38, 39 mirroring with striping, 40 parity, 38 striping with parity, 40 performance, 37 38, 39 striping, 37, 38, 39 mirroring with striping, 40 striping with parity, 40 RAID 0, 39 RAID 1, 39 RAID 1+0, 40 choosing RAID level, 42 RAID 5, 40 choosing RAID level, 42 SAN controllers, 43 reading improving communication skills, Recent Expensive Queries Activity Monitor, 105 recovery DR planning, recovery plan composing, 21 listing important databases, 20 redundant array of inexpensive disks see RAID

6 168 Reliability and Performance Monitor, CPU utilization, 102, 103 disk I/O, 102 memory pressure, 103 Resource Overview, 100, 101 replication, distributor, 50 merge replication, 50 publisher, 50 SAN replication, 45, 49 snapshot replication, 51 SQL replication, subscribers, 50 transactional replication, 50 reporting demonstrating your value, 61 researching problems improving communication skills, 149 resource groups, 46 Resource Overview Reliability and Performance Monitor, 100, 101 Resource Waits section Activity Monitor, 105 restoring database verifying database restore, 18 roles, changing, 133 routine, importance of time management, RPC:CompletedEvent event class, 112 S same-server restores verifying database restore, 18 SAN (storage area network), assuming SAN is variable, 45 benchmarking, 44, 45 performance, 44 RAID 5, 43 replication, 45, 49 spindles, 45 search engines troubleshooting, 115 security outsourcing, 93 server administrators meeting with, 23 ServerFault forum, 115 servers creating list of database servers, service-level agreements see SLAs shadowing, value of, 4 Showplan All Event class, 114 Simmons, Ken infrequently used databases can be critical, 19 SLAs (service-level agreements) development systems, establishing support processes, 85, 86 importance of communication, 69 managing expectations, production systems, sleep, 127 snapshot replication, 51 social gatherings overindulgence at, social networking, 154 avoiding isolation, 161 SP:BatchCompleted event class, 112 speaking improving communication skills, professional associations, 153 spindles SAN (storage area network), 45 SQL Profiler, causing performance issues, 112 CPU utilization, 114 data columns, event classes, 111, 112 disk I/O, 113 event categories, 110 event classes, 110, 111 memory pressure, 113 Showplan All Event class, 114 SQL replication, snapshot replication, 51 transactional replication, 50 SQL Server, troubleshooting issues with, SQL Server troubleshooting tools, Activity Monitor, Dynamic Management Views, Reliability and Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler, Wait stats, SQLCMD utility creating list of database servers, 16 SQLServer:Buffer Manager object, 103

7 169 SQLServer:Cursor Manager by Type, 104 SQLServer:Memory manager object, 103 SQLServer:PhysicalDisk object, 102 SQLServer:SQL Statistics object, 103 SQLServer:Wait Statistics object, 109 SQLServerCentral forum, 115 SQLServerPedia website, 116 StackOverflow forum, 115 standards, DBA, 59 statistics SQLServer:SQL Statistics object, 103 SQLServer:Wait Statistics object, 109 Wait stats, SQL Server, Still, Jared avoiding isolation, 161 joining forums, 148 researching problems, 149 storage area network see SAN stress relief emotional eating, 118 time management, striping RAID, 37, 38, 39 striping with parity, 40 subscribers, replication, 50 support processes, establishing, defining process, publishing process, 87 reminding people about, 87 systems piloting new systems, 134 T TechNet website, 116 technical resources troubleshooting, 116 tempdb files choosing RAID level, 42 testing DR testing, 53 time management, importance of routine, saying No, 78 stress relief, to-do lists, 77 training benefits to employees, 135 to-do lists time management, 77 today to-do lists, 90 tools for troubleshooting, trace SQL Profiler, 110, 111, 112 training, becoming a DBA, 9 benefits to employees, communication skills, 136 employee motivation, 135 job satisfaction, 135 process efficiency, 135 time management, 135 benefits to employer, compliance issues, 137 improved morale, 137 reduced employee turnover, 137 reduced risk, 137 staying competitive, 137 building business case for, calculating costs, 143 determining benefits of training, 143 determining cost savings, 143 determining training needs, 142 certifications, 140 classroom training, 140 determining benefits of training, 143 determining training needs, 142 in-service training, 139 measuring results, 144 reasons for, changing roles, 133 customer satisfaction, 134 piloting new systems, 134 professional development, 133 self-training, 138 training resources, becoming DBA, 160 continuing education, 140 professional associations, 139 volunteering, 139 web sites, 138 transaction log files choosing RAID level, 41 log shipping, 48 transactional replication, 50 traveling, eating and, troubleshooting, choosing profiler carefully, 113 reaction-oriented monitoring, 98 SQL Server issues, CPU, 100 disk I/O, 99 memory, 99

8 170 SQL Server tools, Activity Monitor, Dynamic Management Views, Reliability and Performance Monitor, SQL Profiler, Wait stats, technical resources, 116 using forums, 115 using search engines, 115 Twitter troubleshooting, 115 U unconscious eating, UPA (Usability Professional s Association), 139 uptime see availability V views Dynamic Management Views, volunteering training resources, 139 W Wait stats, CPU utilization, 110 disk I/O, 109 memory pressure, 109 SQLServer:Wait Statistics object, 109 wait types, 109 CPU, 110 disk I/O, 109 memory, 109 walking, 126 web sites training resources, 138 work/life balance, communication, 88 writing improving communication skills, professional associations, 153