Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches is the perfect way to get started with SQL Server operations, including maintenance, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance monitoring. In about an hour a day over a month, you'll learn exactly what you can do, and what you shouldn't touch. Most importantly, you'll learn the day-to-day tasks and techniques you need to keep SQL Server humming along smoothly.

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About the Book

Microsoft SQL Server is used by millions of businesses, ranging in size from Fortune 500s to small shops worldwide. Whether you're just getting started as a DBA, supporting a SQL Server-driven application, or you've been drafted by your office as the SQL Server admin, you do not need a thousand-page book to get up and running.

Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches is the perfect way to get started with SQL Server. This concise, easy-to-read book skips academic introductions and teaches you day-to-day techniques for maintenance, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, and more. Each of the 21 short lessons gives you practical takeaways you'll use over and over.

What's Inside

Master the basics—indexes, logins, backup, recovery ... and more
Learn what you can and cannot do when supporting a third-party application
Monitor and improve performance
Written by expert trainer and bestselling author Don Jones
Accessible to readers of any level of experience, the book covers techniques for all versions of SQLServer 2005-2014.

About the Author

Don Jones is a Microsoft MVP, speaker, and trainer. He is the creator of the Month of Lunches series and author of over 50 books on PowerShell, IIS, Active Directory, SCCM, SQL Server, and more.

Table of Contents

Before you begin
Server assessment and configuration
T-SQL crash course
Managing databases
Backup and recovery
Authentication: who are you?
Authorization: what are you allowed to do?
Accounting: what did you do?
Analyzing indexes
Maintaining indexes
Tuning index designs
Reading query execution plans
Block and deadlock analysis
Automating management with SQL Server Agent
Multiserver management
Windows PowerShell and SQL Server
Using Extended Events
Monitoring and analyzing performance
Options for high availability
Virtualizing SQL Server
Moving, migrating, and upgrading databases
SQL Server performance checklist
Never the end

About the Author

Don Jones is a Microsoft MVP, speaker, and trainer. He developed the Microsoft PowerShell courseware and has taught SQL Server, PowerShell, and other practical technologies to more than 20,000 IT pros. Don writes for TechNet Magazine and blogs for WindowsITPro.com. He is the creator of the Month of Lunches series that covers PowerShell, IIS, Active Directory, SCCM, SQL Server, and more.

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