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EMC Knowledge Sharing Competition – Article Selected for Publishing

In the fall last year I learned about the 2015 EMC Knowledge Sharing Competition. This is a writing competition hosted by EMC to promote sharing of information about technology topics. All EMC certified professionals are welcome to submit abstracts for consideration in the contest. I thought the work I had done with Data Domain Boost (DD Boost) for SQL Server would a good topic and decided to give the contest a shot.

The previous work I have done on this topic can be found at the links below.

Data Domain Boost for SQL – Deployment Planning Considerations for DBAs

SQL Server Data Domain Boost Scripting Toolkit

Toolkit Project on GitHub

In November I was notified my abstract was accepted and it was time to get started writing the article. It was a lot of work especially because I was in the middle of writing and publishing the SQL Server Data Domain Boost Scripting Toolkit. It turned out to be a great experience and last week I was notified my article, How to Boost SQL Server Backups with Data Domain, was selected for publishing. It will be included in the 2015 book of abstracts and published at some point during the year.

Find our more about the EMC Knowledge Sharing Competition here

While I was not selected as a finalist, the experience was enjoyable and interesting. I think this is a very cool event EMC does, I appreciate being part of it, and I’m sure it takes a lot of work internally. I will be looking forward to the awards session at EMC World 2015 to hear the winners announced and congratulate them.

Regards,

Dave

SQL Server Data Domain Boost Scripting Toolkit

Over the past several months I have worked with customers who have been implementing EMC Data Domain Boost for SQL Server. A common challenge for these customers is automating backups and restores using SQL Server tools such as T-SQL, maintenance plans, and agent jobs. I have posted about this previously here but found some organizations still needed additional help getting started. This led me to create the SQL Server Data Domain Boost Scripting Toolkit to provide DBAs with a head start. Currently the toolkit provides T-SQL stored procedures and a table definition to provide additional functionality on top of EMC’s Data Domain Boost for SQL Server.

The toolkit is published on GitHub at this address https://github.com/dmuegge/ddb-sql-toolkit. The toolkit is licensed under the MIT open source license agreement.

With this post I felt a demo video would provide the most value and you can also find documentation on using the toolkit in the scripts and files included with the toolkit. The video is approximately 24 minutes, Enjoy.
 

 

The goal of the SQL Server Data Domain Scripting Toolkit is to provide DBAs with a head start to T-SQL scripting and automation using DD Boost for SQL Server which is part of Data Domain Boost for Microsoft Applications. The initial toolkit utilizes the xp_cmdshell system stored procedure in a set of T-SQL stored procedures to execute the DD Boost for SQL executables. I also hope to extend this toolkit in the future with additional options to utilize SQL DD Boost.

See the previous post I wrote which led me to create the SQL Server Data Domain Boost Scripting Toolkit. I hope someone finds this toolkit useful. Please provide any feedback and updates to the toolkit.

Regards,

Dave