Most DBAs spend a portion of their day reviewing servers looking for errors and potential problems. Windows PowerShell offers the ability to automate some of those tasks freeing the DBA to perform other duties. In this video Scott Golightly will show how to use PowerShell to automate reviewing log files and checking SQL Server properties.
For many database administrators ensuring top performance is a large part of their job. By using the Database Engine Tuning Advisor the database any workload can be analyzed for changes to the database that will increase performance. By taking advantage of the database engine tuning advisor, administrators can reduce the amount of time they spend analyzing the database to increase performance. In this video Scott Golightly shows how to use a SQL script as the input to the database engine tuning advisor to determine how to increase performance in certain tables in the Adventure works sample database.