CHAPTER 7

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Creating a SQL Health Repository

You now have enough knowledge and technical foundation to put together all you know so far to create and build a DBA and SQL health repository. In this chapter, I will expand on the tools and scripts I have been discussing.

Laying the Repository Groundwork

Since you will be collecting a whole host of metadata, performance measures, and statistics regarding the health of your SQL Server on a continuous basis, you will need a place to store and review this information. One readily available place to store and review collected data is an Excel spreadsheet. Here you can create a tab for each set of specific ...

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