August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 59m
English
As an enterprise DBA who struggles with best practice implementation on a daily basis, I'm excited about the potential of policy-based management:
Policies (and their evaluation history) are stored in the MSDB database. You should back up this database on a regular basis, or at least each time a policy definition changes.
Implement proactive DBA checks as automated policies where possible. As well as saving time that can be spent on other tasks such as performance baselining, creating policies enables you to configure new servers faster and more reliably than with manual methods.
Create central management servers to maximize the power of policy-based management. Where classes of servers ...
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