The Efficient DBA: Automating Your Job

Speaker: Jes Borland As an operational DBA, you have many tasks to perform. You need to ensure that your databases are backed up, consistency checks are run, and performance baselines are created and monitored. How do you accomplish these tasks and still have time to help developers and end users with performance, perform upgrades and migrations, and continuously learn? Automation! In this session we'll walk through real-life examples of using tools such as maintenance plans, SQL Server Agent jobs running custom scripts, and PowerShell to automate common tasks and make you the most efficient DBA you can be.