John McCormack DBA

SQL Server Databases and AWS Cloud Solutions

Zero Budget DBA – SQLBITS 2020

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Zero Budget DBA – SQLBITS 2020

SQLBits 2020At SQLBits 2020, I presented the session: The Zero Budget DBA | SQL Community has got your back. The session aimed to highlight some free of charge tools which make life easier for DBAs and other data professionals.

SQLBits usually make past sessions available online. When this occurs, I’ll link to it here so you can rewatch. In the meantime, the session slides and scripts are available to download from my Github profile.

The data source I used for the Paisley Police Department was just a simple csv of Detroit 911 calls from Data.World.

I hope you enjoyed the session. If you have any questions, please feel free to tweet me.

John

Monitor your sql rds instance using CloudWatch

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Monitor your SQL RDS instance using CloudWatch

This is a short video on how to monitor your sql rds instance using CloudWatch. Cloudwatch is the built in tool from AWS which can be used to monitor many different resources. Here, we specifically talk about RDS for SQL Server. I also talk you through how to set up alarms to notify you when things go bad, such as high CPU alarms.

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How Multi-AZ Works For SQL Server on RDS

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How Multi-AZ Works For SQL Server on RDS

This is a short video about How Multi-AZ Works For SQL Server on RDS. I didn’t feel a demo was needed this time jsut for the sake of it. Enabling Multi-AZ is a click of a button or one line of PowerShell or CLI.

Important: Please read this post for further information. I’ve highlighted some key points in my presentation but there is no point in me simply listing out everything or reading the post verbatim. There is some really great info in this post however so it is well worth reading.

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Backup and restore for AWS RDS SQL Server

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Backup and restore for AWS RDS SQL Server

In this video, we talk about backup and restore for AWS RDS SQL Server. One of the great benefits of Platform as a Service (PaaS) is that your cloud hosting company will handle the backups for you. And they’re really good at it. In this case, AWS will allow you to restore to any point in time within the last 35 days, and all with no administration effort on your part.

This video dives a bit deeper into the non default options such as backing up and restoring using native backups and how you can keep those backups way beyond the 35 days.

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Automating SQL RDS With PowerShell

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Automating SQL RDS With PowerShell

Introduction to AWSPowerShell, for managing SQL Server RDS instances. Learn how to create, restore, take snapshots and start/stop instances for cost optimisation reasons.

Apologies that this video is 16 minutes, I really wanted to keep all of the training videos under 10 minutes but there was so much to say about PowerShell. (And I only scratched the surface).

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