Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches
Language: English
Published by Manning Publications, 2014
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? DESCRIPTION Readers who find themselves in the position of supporting SQL Server as the back-end to a third-party application or who have had SQL Server dumped on them because they are the "Microsoft person" in the office will be relieved to find they don't need a 1000 page book to get started with SQL Server. If they invest just one hour a day?lunchtime would be perfect?they can be up to speed in a matter of days. 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. Readers will learn exactly what they can do, and what they shouldn?t touch. Most importantly, they'll learn the day-to-day tasks and techniques needed to keep SQL Server humming along smoothly. ? RETAIL SELLING POINTS Dives immediately into hands-on tasks Helps achieve maximum effectiveness Strives to be as version-neutral as possible AUDIENCE Designed to be immediately effective for readers with any level of experience. This book is as version-neutral as possible, covering techniques for SQL Server 2005-SQL Server 2014. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that has applicability to administrator, developer, and DBA audiences.…
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- Title
- Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches
- Author
- Don Jones
- Publisher
- Manning Publications
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1617292133
- ISBN 13
- 9781617292132
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.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
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
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