Offline Assessment for SQL Server

Agenda Introduction
• Objective
• Environment Details

Assessment Findings
• Reviews Scorecards, Health and Risks
• Issue Details

Remediation Planning
• High level Actions
• How can Microsoft help to improve the health of your environment?
• Remediation Planning

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Introduction

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Objective RAP as a ServiceSession: Remediation Planning Session:

• Explain your RAP as a Service results: Establish a comprehensive Remediation Plan,

Health and Risks issues on your customized and prioritized to improve the
environment. XXX environment!
• Knowledge Transfer: Explain and discuss
why health and risk issues must be Based on:
remediated. • RAP as a Service findings:Health and Risk
issues
• Your IT Goals
• Business Impact and Value for your
Organization

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 SQL Server Host or Windows SQL Server Instance Name
Environment
Cluster Name
Details
Lenny MOU
MARGE I2
MARGE SP_FOUNDATION

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Rap as a
Service
Findings

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Risk and The overall results of the assessment are split into two main parts – Health and Risk.
This is done to provide a more accurate view of the overall environment.
Health
Assessment
Overall Health Result Overall Risk Result
Methodology
• Primarily relates to the current state of • Primarily relates to the potential future
the environment. Are key components state of the environment. Are there
and services functioning the way they processes, documentation and systems
should, systems online and responsive, in place that would help mitigate future
and so on. problems in the environment. This can
• Typical health issues equate to active include change control, monitoring,
problems. SLAs, training, and so on.
• Typical risk issues equate to increased
chances of new or worsening problems
in the future.

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Good Results  There is no critical issue!!!

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Overall Health PDI's SQL Server was considered partially not healthy.
Result There are 4 high issues:
• Indexes have been identified with an index key
larger than the recommended size (900 bytes).
• User Databases found with Full or Bulk logged
recovery model and no Transactional log backups.
• DBCC CHECKDB has not been run within seven
days.
• Paging file usage is high.

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Overall Risk PDI's SQL Server was considered in high risk. There are
Result 19 high issues:
• The SQL Server Configuration setting, xp_cmdshell,
is enabled.
• The Value configured for SQL Server Configuration,
Max Degree of parallelism may impact your SQL
Server instance performance.
• Database(s) identified with recovery model set to
Simple.
• Databases identified with Guest user enabled.

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Overall Risk • SQL Server service is running under the Local
Result System account.
• Too many virtual log files may impact SQL Server
performance.
• SQL Server instance has only one tempdb data file
while there is more than one scheduler in use.
• Databases have been identified with one or more
Transaction Log files where expected next Auto
Growth increment is 1GB or above.
• There are foreign keys with no supporting indexes.

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Overall Risk • Databases identified with one or more tables, with
Result indexes that may require update statistics.
• The Windows 2008/R2 and later OS power saving
setting may affect the CPU performance.
• System Event Log: Microsoft-Windows-
FailoverClustering: 1135: Cluster node was removed
from the active failover cluster membership.
• The System Event log contains Event 1548.
• Disaster recovery plan is not documented.

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Overall Risk • Statistics are not regularly updated.
Result • Establish a comprehensive, proactive security update
management process to minimize the effect of
software vulnerabilities and attacks.
• No procedures and tools in place for checking
missing Security Updates and Service Packs.
• Deprecated database SET options found.
• The current version of SQL Server does not meet
the requirement for an In-Place Upgrade.

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 Consolidated Scorecard Risk Level Health Level
Scorecard SQL Server Configurations High No Issues

SQL Configurations High No Issues

SQL Server Database Options High No Issues

Database Options High No Issues

SQL Server Information No Issues Medium

SQL Server Info No Issues Medium

SQL Server Properties No Issues No Issues

SQL Properties No Issues No Issues

SQL Server Security High No Issues

SQL Security High No Issues

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 Consolidated Scorecard Risk Level Health Level
Scorecard SQL Server Architecture and Design High High

Database Files High Medium

Database Indexes High High

SQL Server High Availability No Issues Medium

Cluster Hotfixes No Issues No Issues

Cluster Resource No Issues Medium

Always On No Issues No Issues

SQL Server maintenance Low High

SQL Server maintenance Low High

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 Consolidated Scorecard Risk Level Health Level
Scorecard OS Configurations for SQL High Low

OS Configurations for SQL High Low

Event Log Analysis High No Issues

Event Log Analysis High No Issues

Operational Excellence High No Issues

Disaster Recovery High No Issues

Environmental Dependencies Low No Issues

Monitoring Low No Issues

Operational Excellence High No Issues

Operational Security Medium No Issues

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 Consolidated Scorecard Risk Level Health Level
Scorecard Update Management High No Issues

SQL Server Update Management High No Issues

SQL Server Error Log Medium No Issues

SQL Error Log Medium No Issues

Performance Medium High

SQL Performance Medium High

Upgrade Readiness High No Issues

Upgrade Readiness High No Issues

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Remediation
Planning

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 High level
Actions

How can Remediation

Microsoft help Planning
to improve the
health of your
environment?

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Questions?

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