Hello Friends,
We always heard that we should adopt Best Practices in SQL Server and most of the time we tried our best to adopt best practices in our work but the problem is who will analyze the best practices which we did for our database ,SQL Server.
Hmm, that’s the point my dear friends but don’t worry on this part also because Microsoft introduce BPA (Best Practice Analyzer).
I tried this tool recently it is easy to use. It scans your database, SQL SERVER and provides you the best way to adopt Best Practices with your current structure.
You can download the installer of this tool from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=da0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63
After install this BPA utility you can easily scan your SQL SERVER, Databases with this.
The BPA will provide you report of scan. The scan report will give you idea about what is missing, what need to do?
Below are some listed options which BPA raised after scan report
1) Backup is latest or is it out dated?
2) Database having any anomalies.
3) Database integrity check required or not?
4) Check Disk IO delay problem
5) Backup should be on separate volume
6) Bulletin\Administrators in sysAdmin Role
7) Set Page verify option
8) SQL Login Password policy violation
9) Database is not in full recovery mode
Although some of the warning in the above list which we can ignore according to our business need.
And many more issues to make SQL Server database robust just check below report snap.
As per my opinion the tool is good but need some more functionality or utility to manage and apply
Best practices. So why you people waiting just download, install and use.
Make your database robust with best practices.
Enjoy Best Practices.
Thanks & Regards
Rajat Jaiswal
