SQLBits 2011

Inside Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution

How do you do database maintenance in an enterprise environment? In this session I will go through how you can do backup, integrity check, index and statistics maintenance using Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution.

How do you do database maintenance in an enterprise environment? I have developed a stored procedure based solution that has become extremely popular in the SQL Server community (http://ola.hallengren.com). In this session I will go through how the solution works, how it can be used in different scenarios for backup, integrity check, index and statistics maintenance and talk some about the background for the design. You can also bring your questions about the solution or about database maintenance in general.

Ola Hallengren's other proposed sessions for 2026

The Latest Performance Improvements in Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, and SQL Server 2025 - 2026

Ola Hallengren's previous sessions

SQL Server 2022 Performance Enhancements

In this session we are going to look at the performance enhancements in SQL Server 2022. We will cover the most important enhancements in the optimizer (intelligent query processing), storage engine, Accelerated Database Recovery, availability groups, Query Store, stack dumps and some more. Which problems are the features solving? How are they doing it? I will share some real-world experiences of the features, from running SQL Server 2022 on mission-critical databases.

Performance Monitoring Using Extended Events, DMVs & Query S

Extended Events, Dynamic Management Views, and Query Store are powerful and lightweight tools. In this session you will learn techniques for combining the data from these tools, to gain great insight, when analyzing performance problems.

Inside Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution

In this session I will talk about backup, integrity check, and index and statistics maintenance, and how you can use my maintenance solution (http://ola.hallengren.com) in an enterprise environment.

Inside Ola Hallengrens Maintenance Solution