Maintenance Plans

We just started using DPM 2007 to backup our 2005 DB's so I am deleting the
backups in the maintenance plans. Should I go back in and have any regular
maintenance on DB's like Shrink or Reorganize or is just backing up using DPM
ok?
DPM only does backups and AFAIK it also takes care of the retention period
as well. But it does not handle any other routine database functions such as
CHECKDB's, Reindexing etc. so you still have to do that yourself. And
shrinking should not be one of them.
http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_dont_shrink.asp
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
Solid Quality Mentors
"Robert" <Robert@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We just started using DPM 2007 to backup our 2005 DB's so I am deleting
> the
> backups in the maintenance plans. Should I go back in and have any regular
> maintenance on DB's like Shrink or Reorganize or is just backing up using
> DPM
> ok?
>
|||Thanks Andrew. What is typical for a maintenance plan, there are many options
in the Admin. Studio.
I just set one up to:
Check Integrity
Reorg Index
Update Stats
Clean up history
Maintenance Cleanup
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:

> DPM only does backups and AFAIK it also takes care of the retention period
> as well. But it does not handle any other routine database functions such as
> CHECKDB's, Reindexing etc. so you still have to do that yourself. And
> shrinking should not be one of them.
> http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_dont_shrink.asp
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
> Solid Quality Mentors
>
> "Robert" <Robert@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
|||Thanks Tibor. I will get to reading to better understand what each does.
"Tibor Karaszi" wrote:

> By understanding what each option do, you can decide which options are suitable for a particular
> installation.
> For instance, Maint Cleanup can be critical if you also do backup and don't have other means to
> remove old backup files.
> Or, Reorg can be important to reduce fragmentation, but since the maint plan's reorg is stupid and
> don't take into account initial fragmentation one might want to skip this step and do it yourself
> (smarter). Or perhaps not at all, if fragmentation don't cost you.
> etc...
> --
> Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
> http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
> http://sqlblog.com/blogs/tibor_karaszi
>
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