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Establish a Maintenance Plan on SQL Server

In this hands-on lab scenario, your organization, Awesome Company, is reducing its on-site footprint and moving as many databases as possible to the cloud. As part of this effort, you have provisioned an Azure SQL Server virtual machine and are in the process of moving a sales database there. This database requires particular maintenance on a regular basis, so you need to set up a mechanism for automating these tasks. Performing the actions of this lab will help you become familiar with using maintenance plans to automate SQL Server maintenance tasks.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

30m

Published

Apr 09, 2021

Challenge

Set Up the Environment

Restore the acweb database from the GitHub repo, but use the name acsales.
Challenge

Create a Maintenance Plan for Indexes and Statistics

Create a maintenance plan for acsales that will rebuild all indexes once a week and update all statistics every day.
Challenge

Create a Maintenance Plan for Integrity Checks

Create a maintenance plan to check the integrity of all databases once per week.

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A Cloud Guru

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