An essential how-to guide for experienced DBAs on the most significant product release since 2005!Microsoft SQL Server 2012 will have major changes throughout the SQL Server and will impact how DBAs administer the database. With this book, a team of well-known SQL Server experts introduces the many new features of the most recent version of SQL Server and deciphers how these changes will affect the methods that administrators have been using for years. Loaded with unique tips, tricks, and workarounds for handling the most difficult SQL Server admin issues, this how-to guide deciphers topics such as performance tuning, backup and recovery, scaling and replication, clustering, and security.
- Serves as a must-have how-to guide on the new features of the 2012 release of Microsoft SQL Server
- Walks you through ways to manage and monitor SQL Server and automate administration
- Guides you through SQL Azure for cloud computing, data replication, and data warehouse performance improvements
- Addresses client-connectivity enhancements, new features that ensure high availability of mission-critical applications, and tighter integration with Excel and SharePoint for data analysis and reporting
- Highlights major changes to the suite of SQL Server BI tools, including integration, reporting, and analysis services
- Includes real-world case examples and best practices from Microsoft insiders
If you're a database administrator eager to get started with the newest version of SQL Server, then this book is essential reading.
Tips, tricks, and workarounds for effectively administering SQLServer This comprehensive guide teaches you the skills needed tosuccessfully administer SQL Server 2012. You'll learn how to handlethe most difficult admin issues including change management,security, performance tuning, monitoring, and backups. And you'llalso discover how to master the latest features of the 2012release, including client connectivity enhancements, cloudcomputing, data replication, and business intelligence. Thisdetailed instruction by leading experts will help you improve theefficiency, scalability, and performance of your SQL Serverenvironment so you can do more in much less time.
Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012Administration:
Examines settings and configuration items that improve SQLServer performance
Shows how to implement strategies for effective indexing foryour database
Takes you through the setup, configuration, and testing of acluster
Outlines the options in SQL Server for backups and recoveries,and provides recommendations to make the most of these features
Covers what you need to know about how SharePoint® 2010integrates with SQL Server
Introduces SQL Server Azure and gets you up and running on thisexciting new cloud platform
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