Looking for information regarding SQL maintenance jobs for servers running GP. I backup the entire virtual machine with Veeam, but I also run SQL backup jobs and backup log jobs. While setting that up I saw other maintenance tasks such as reorganize index, rebuild index, and update statistics. Do any of you run any of those jobs?
Only found one post in these forums related to the issue, sorry if I'm not searching with the right terms.
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For what it's worth, we typically set up general maintenance (like check DB integrity and reorganize index, update statistics) to be a weekly job. Obviously different environments might require different settings, but for many installations I think that is a good guideline.
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Again that is because there isn't a hard number. Some people do it one a month others every few months. There is no reason to do this unless you are experiencing performance issues. If we recommended it once a month maybe that works for you but not every else. It is impossible to have recommendations like this when each company would be different.
Thanks for your help. Both mention the maintenance commands I've talked about above, but stay away from specific guidelines on how often, given general database sizes. I understand why they may do this, but I'm just frustrated because I'd I don't have much precedence to follow.
There isn't a hard number on when these should be ran. I would refer you to the following KB:
875193 Information about database maintenance plans for Microsoft Dynamics GP or for Microsoft Dynamics SL on SQL Server 2008, on SQL Server 2005, or on SQL Server 2000
mbs.microsoft.com/.../KBDisplay.aspx;EN-US;875193
Otherwise you could check out the Performance White Paper which discusses this as well.
Asking if those three jobs should be run? Sometimes maintenance like rebuilding or reorganizing an indexes should only be done if a db is below a certain threshold (20% fragmented for example).
Are you asking if you should run these or what these jobs do?
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