June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
You can perform database maintenance without the use of the built-in maintenance plans that come with SQL Server. The additional complexity in SQL Server 2014 may steer some people away from the use of these plans. In addition, these plans cannot be easily scripted, so deployment to multiple environments is not straightforward.
Database maintenance that is performed without a maintenance plan is often performed using custom scripts or stored procedures that execute the T-SQL commands to perform the maintenance. Often these maintenance commands or custom scripts are then scheduled to run on a regular basis by manually setting up jobs within the SQL Server Agent job scheduler in SQL Server Management Studio. ...
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