1. Maintenance of Health Checkup of Production Database on
Daily basis.
2. Implementation of Maintenance Jobs to be scheduled at
regular intervals (Daily and Weekly)
a. Database Integrity Check- Weekly
b. Index Defragmentation – Rebuild and Reorganizing- Daily
c. Check for Missing Indexes (to be performed manually)-
Weekly
d. Check for Unused and Duplicate Indexes (to be performed
manually)- Weekly
e. Update Statistics
f.
Check Wait Stats and
network latencies for Data loads (to be performed manually)- Weekly
g. Purging wherever applicable- Weekly
h. Database Shrinking wherever applicable- Weekly
i.
Checking for
costliest queries and their improvement recommendations- weekly
j.
Db growth and disk
space checks
k. Deadlocks and IO Bottlenecks
l.
Checking wait stats.
3. Server Settings Recommendations as per Microsoft’s Best
Practices.
a. Setting up Minimum and Maximum memory allocation on Sql
server.
b. Analyze the best practice for changing Fill Factor
c. Analyze the best practice to implement optimize adhoc
workload value.
d.
Changing the MAXDOP
setting as per available CPUs on server.
4. Database Settings Recommendations as per Microsoft’s Best
Practices.
a. Setting up database initial size, Auto growth and Max
growth.
b. Checking for Recovery Model.
c. Checking for Compatibility level
d. Analysis and implementation of best practices of
Automatic options like Auto Create Statistics.
e. Checking for Page Verify as CheckSum.
f.
Checking for state
options.
g. Setting up multiple mdf files for user database wherever
applicable.
h. Implementation of best practices of TempDB.
i.
Checking of Disk
space available for database in drives.
j.
Setting up c drive
space as per available RAM.
PS: All Server and Database
settings are one time activity and need to be performed in production downtime
and also, sql services needs to be restarted after completion of these
activities.
