PRO: Best Practices #
All features described on this page are part of the Professional Edition.
While in beta, you can enable the Professional Edition by creating an account and downloading a license from https://portal.sqldsc.com.
The PRO edition will become a paid version. Until then, PRO features expire 60 days after the build date. Please see https://www.scalesql.com for updated builds or run
sqldsc update
.
Domains #
If you work with multiple domains, go all in on that.
- Have multiple
DOMAIN.targets.hcl
and NOtargets.hcl
- Have domain specific directories under
nodes
and NO.hcl
files under the root ofnodes
Tags #
Common uses for Tags include:
- Seperate DEV from PROD
- Group all nodes of an AG together
- Group servers that are of specific versions
- Group servers by language or time zone
- Group servers by business unit
Tags can be used to group servers even if there aren’t settings in that tag – however it still needs an empty .hcl
file. This can be used to stage large changes.
- This can be done by using the
--tag
filter to only process certain servers. For example, you could editdefaults.hcl
but then run with--tag alpha
and it would only process for those servers assigned to tagalpha
. - Or it could be done by changing the tag specific setting file. For example, you could update
alpha.hcl
and run for all servers. Then you could put those settings indefaults.hcl
and remove them fromalpha.hcl
and run again.