January 4, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hello All,
I'm hoping you all can provide me with a little advice? I just landed my first DBA position with a company that runs different versions of SQL Server (7.0, 2000, 2005) on many different boxes. The databases I will be managing are in the 10-30TB ranges. Mostly the databases are for OLAP access by the company’s customers. I will need to bring myself up to speed on everything because there is no DBA at the company to transfer information.
Can anyone provide any advise on how I should approach this task of learning my position and/or useful links to resources? Thank you in advance!
~Sean
January 4, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Start with backups, be sure that you have them running and you can restore them.
I'd also request some consulting help and hire someone to help you. If you have TB databases, you need to know what you're doing and there's not a good way to do this here. TB size database will have issues that don't necessarily apply to smaller systems.
Some articles, but it's hard to give you a good starting place:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administration/61681/
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/thevalueofadba/1806/
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic165125-92-1.aspx#bm165309
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