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SQL Server Skill Set for Disaster Recovery
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7/11/2008 8:49:26 AM
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Recently I was tasked with creating a list skills needed for Disaster Recovery. Everything ! You don't necessarily need a SQL Server guru, but you need the highest level of competency there is about the product. Competency of the product, does not necessarily mean an expert, but it means they understand all peices of the product, how to install them, how to configure them....and then how to recover them.
Basically most of the DR Scenarios we run into our bare metal restores. We start with a clean OS, which closely matches the production environment, but it may not be an exact match. From there the process of installing SQL and recovering bak files (or other files from tape) begins.
The skill set I submitted was:
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Building up an installation from new media
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Restoring System Databases from bak files
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Restoring User databases
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Understand the SID, Security Identifiers and how to synchronize logins
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Resetting linked servers, sql agent jobs and DTS / SSIS Packages
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Named Instances of SQL
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How to set a static port for a named instance
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Understand how to reset / rebuild Full Text Indexes
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Understand SAN Technology to include
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Working knowledge of Virtualization
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Extended Stored Procedures
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Compression utilities like SQL LiteSeed
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SQL Server 2005 .Net based stored procedures
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Issues with the master database and extended stored procedures on restore
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Communication Skills
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Connectivity issues
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Operating System and NetBackup / Recover Skills
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