Automate your workload and manage more databases and instances with greater ease and efficiency
by combining metadata-driven automation with powerful tools like PowerShell and SQL Server
Agent. Automate your new instance-builds and use monitoring to drive ongoing automation with
the help of an inventory database and a management data warehouse. The market has seen a trend
towards there being a much smaller ratio of DBAs to SQL Server instances. Automation is the key
to responding to this challenge and continuing to run a reliable database platform service.
Expert Scripting and Automation for SQL Server DBAs guides you through the process of
automating the maintenance of your SQL Server enterprise.Expert Scripting and Automation for
SQL Server DBAs shows how to automate the SQL Server build processes monitor multiple
instances from a single location and automate routine maintenance tasks throughout your
environment. You will also learn how to create automated responses to common or time consuming
break fix scenarios. The book helps you become faster and better at what you do for a living
and thus more valuable in the job market. Extensive coverage of automation using PowerShell and
T-SQL Detailed discussion and examples on metadata-driven automation Comprehensive coverage of
automated responses to break fix scenarios What You Will Learn Automate the SQL Server build
process Create intelligent metadata-drive routines Automate common maintenance tasks Create
automated responses to common break fix scenarios Monitor multiple instance from a central
location Utilize T-SQL and PowerShell for administrative purposes Who This Book Is For Expert
Scripting and Automation for SQL Server DBAs is a book for SQL Server database administrators
responsible for managing increasingly large numbers of databases across their business
enterprise. The book is also useful for any database administrator looking to ease their
workload through automation. The book addresses the needs of these audiences by showing how to
get more done through less effort by implementing an intelligent automated-processes service
model using tools such as T-SQL PowerShell Server Agent and the Management Data Warehouse.
