SQLintersection. The Ultimate Free SQL Server Toolkit SQL123. Kevin Kline

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1 SQLintersection SQL123 The Ultimate Free SQL Server Toolkit Kevin Kline

2 Overview Relational Engine Tools Security Administration Transact-SQL Testing Performance DTS/SSIS/SQLAgent Analysis Services Tools Non-SQL Server Tools too good to miss

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4 Query Tuning Free Plan Explorer download: SQLintersection. All rights reserved. 4

5 General Security Because there is no patch for stupid Bookmark it! SQLPing 3.0: discover all SQL Servers. Lockdown.sql: locks down rarely used functionality/security holes, while not breaking common features. Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer: Perform a security assessment of your Windows Servers. Latest version, Jan 2015, is at Resource Center, with lots of sample scripts, available at Don t let security be an afterthought

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7 SQL Injection ever heard of locking the door? URL Scan v3.1: Can filter requests based on query strings to help mitigate SQL injection and other attacks which use a query string payload. The ability to created custom rules that scan parts of your HTTP requests. Code Analysis Tool for.net: A command-line that tool helps you identify security flaws within a managed code (C#, Visual Basic.NET, J#) application you are developing Scans the binary and/or assembly of the application, and tracing the data flow among its statements, methods, and assemblies. Two cool tools (HP Scrawlr and Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection) have gone extinct.

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9 Monitoring WHASSUP?!?

10 Monitoring & Troubleshooting SP_WhoIsActive, My favorite for finding out user activity. And it now supports Azure! Brent s Blitz, My favorite for SQL Server health check. Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL), A rich set of collectors and GUIs to assess performance across many servers. Good for Windows, SQL Server, and other products like Exchange. Internals Viewer, : see how data is written at the 8k page level

11 Monitoring & Troubleshooting SP_WHOISACTIVE, My favorite for finding out user activity. And it now supports Azure! Brent s Blitz, My favorite for SQL Server health check. Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL), A rich set of collectors and GUIs to assess performance across many servers. Good for Windows, SQL Server, and other products like Exchange. Internals Viewer: see how data is written at the 8k page level,

12 Administration Suite! Er, sweet! SSMS Tools Pack: a snap-in that enhances SSMS with CRUD procedure generation, T-SQL formatted, generated CRUD stored procedures, and much more, SQLPSX: A boatload of security management PowerShell scripts for SQL Server Finebuild: Makes it easy for anyone to produce a best-practice installation and configuration of SQL Server. SQL Server Migration Assistants: Ready to move off of Oracle, Sybase, or Access? The 80/20 principle in action.

13 Administration mo betta Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit (MAP): Discovers SQL Servers and takes a full inventory of your estate. Great for migration planning and consolidation projects. Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide: a Microsoft checklist and decision tree, Best Practice Analyser: Checks your SQL2012 database for potential performance and configuration issues. Determines if the configurations are set according to the recommended best practices. Reports when they re different from Microsoft s recommendation. Recommends some solutions. SOME!

14 Administration mo betta Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit (MAP): Discovers SQL Servers and takes a full inventory of your estate. Great for migration planning and consolidation projects. Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide: a Microsoft checklist and decision tree, Best Practice Analyser: Checks your SQL2012 database for potential performance and configuration issues. Determines if the configurations are set according to the recommended best practices. Reports when they re different from Microsoft s recommendation. Recommends some solutions. SOME!

15 Admin Preventative Maintenance Scripting Joke: How do you eat an elephant? Punchline AbaPerls, Automate and manage configurations & schema objects and builds, OlaHallengren, A great collection of PM scripts from Ola Hallengren. Microsoft Product Sample Scripts: Great scripts for alerts and event notification from Microsoft, DBMinion, Similar features to Ola Hallengren s script, but more flexible (and complex). Best preventative maintenance solution in very large estates.

16 Testing

17 Testing tsqlt, a unit testing tool for Transact-SQL code Diskspd, An IO workload simulator to test disk IO capabilities. Successor to SQLIO and SQLIOSim. SQLQueryStress, Stress test your queries to see how far they can scale HammerDB, Run highly scalable TPC-C and TPC-H against your database servers.

18 Testing tsqlt, a unit testing tool for Transact-SQL code Diskspd, An IO workload simulator to test disk IO capabilities. Successor to SQLIO and SQLIOSim. SQLQueryStress, Stress test your queries to see how far they can scale HammerDB, Run highly scalable TPC-C and TPC-H against your database servers.

19 tsqlt Sample Output SQLintersection. All rights reserved

20 Transact-SQL Generators She cannay give ye any more, cap n! SPGen: generate CRUD procedures for all your tables, ScriptDB: script all of your database objects via SMO, Open DBDiff: compare and sync two databases,

21 SSIS and SQLAgent let automation do the heavy lifting DTLoggedExec: Makes logging SSIS inside packages fast & easy while providing lots of performance info, SSISUnit: A declarative testing tool based on Xunit tailored to SSIS environments, cspjobmonitor: Track the activity of all your SQLAgent, BIDS Helper and BIML: Visual Studio add-in with oodles of extra features to augment BIDS, IS, and RS,

22 Analysis Services because we really needed yet one more way to write SQL queries Reporting Services Scripter: move reports easily between servers, RSBuild: executes scripts, publish reports RS & data sources, Analysis Services Product Samples: loads of cool tools including backup & recovery, activity viewer, tracing, AMO browser, and Data Mining WebControls, Also available, IS, RS samples MDX Performance Analyser: collects metrics on your MDX queries,

23 Non-SQL Server Tools

24 Non-SQL Server Tools PowerGUI: Don t want to learn PowerShell? Use this free GUI tool and it s huge library of pre-built scripts. Scriptomatic: Don t want to learn WMI? Use this free tool instead, Log Parser: Read just about any data source from XML to the Event Log to the Registry, mremote: manage all your remote connections from one GUI,

25 Summary Don t reinvent the wheel! Reuse what s available. Free script-based tools are usually better maintained than Free GUI tools. Microsoft s versions and release cycle are the biggest issue with free tools Remember you get what you pay for; free tools are free after all

26 All in One Query Tuning: Free Plan Explorer download: Security: SQLPing and SP_Lockdown at Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer at URL Scan v3.1 at Code Analysis Tool for.net at Monitoring & Troubleshooting: SP_WhoIsActive at Brent s Blitz at Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) at Internals Viewer at Administration: SSMS Tools Pack at SQLPSX powershell scripts at Finebuild configuration management at SQL Server Migration Assistants for Oracle, Sybase, and Access at Microsoft Assessment & Planning Toolkit (MAP) at Best Practice Analyser at Sysinternals at (Windows Server tools). Preventative Maintenance: AbaPerls at OlaHallengren scripts at Microsoft Product Sample Scripts at DBMinion at Testing: tsqlt unit testing at Diskspd at SQLQueryStress at HammerDB, for TCP workloads, at SSIS and SQL Agent tools: DTLoggedExec at SSISUnit at cspjobmonitor at BIDS Helper and BIML at BI Tools: Reporting Services Scripter at RSBuild at Analysis Services Product Samples at MDX Performance Analyser at Non-SQL Server Tools: PowerGUI at Scriptomatic at Log Parser at mremote at

27 Resources My long-running SQLMag Tool Time column. A fantastic collection of Microsoft-centric tools, including many for SQL Server tools, free to registered members Free tools from a large, independent open source community Great images by Jessica Hagy

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