SQL Server Health Check with Brad McGehee

Speaker: Brad McGehee, Director of DBA Education, Red Gate Software (http://www.red-gate.com/).

Brad will present remotely via Live Meeting. You can either:

Come to the Microsoft office in San Francisco
Join us at 6:45 pm via this Live Meeting link (https://www323.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=7BSWNQ&role=attend)
Are your SQL Servers running optimally and providing the high availability your organization expects of them? If you don’t know, or if you have inherited some SQL Server instances that you're not familiar with, then you need to perform a SQL Server Health Check in order to find out.

In this session, you'll learn about a comprehensive checklist (a spreadsheet you can download) that allows you to examine every important aspect of a SQL Server instance’s health, which you can use to help you determine if the instance is running optimally and providing the high availability you expect.

After attending this session, and downloading the SQL Server Health Check spreadsheet, DBAs will be able to go back to their organizations and begin to immediately perform their own SQL Server health checks.

You Will Learn
• How to download a SQL Server Health Checklist (an Excel spreadsheet) you can use as the basis of your inventory and health check.
• The importance of performing an inventory including hardware, firmware, software, OS settings, SQL Settings, and more.
• How to use the information you collect to perform a SQL Server Health Check, so you can verify if your instances are meeting best practices and performing optimally.
• About Brad's upcoming book, How to Perform a SQL Server Health Check.

Brad McGehee is a Database Administrator (MCSE+I, MCSD, and MCT [former]). He's currently the Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software and a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. One of his key areas of interest is how DBAs (and SQL Server ones in particular!) can excel in their careers.

Brad's blog is SQL Aloha (http://www.bradmcgehee.com/)