SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action
eBook - ePub

SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action

About this book

SQL Server 2008 Administration isn't a standard SQL Server tutorial-thereare dozens of those to choose from. Instead, this book breaks down the role of"SQL Server Administrator" into its key focus areas and tasks and details thetechniques and best practices that make an administrator effective.In this book, a reader can quickly identify a task and find the best practiceassociated with it. For example, a reader looking for information about indexingwould find step-by-step procedures for identifying and dropping unusedindexes, creating missing indexes, selecting the appropriate clustered index, and so forth.Each technique is presented in a clear, straightforward style and in the order ofthe typical lifecycle of a SQL Server system. This allows a reader to easily openthe book at the appropriate page and focus on what you need to know for eachspecific situation.While most techniques will work for all versions of SQL Server, this book is currentfor the recent final release of SQL Server 2008. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Dedication
  3. Brief Table of Contents
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About this Book
  9. About the Cover Illustration
  10. About the Author
  11. Part 1. Planning and installation
  12. Chapter 1. The SQL Server landscape
  13. Chapter 2. Storage system sizing
  14. Chapter 3. Physical server design
  15. Chapter 4. Installing and upgrading SQL Server 2008
  16. Chapter 5. Failover clustering
  17. Part 2. Configuration
  18. Chapter 6. Security
  19. Chapter 7. Configuring SQL Server
  20. Chapter 8. Policy-based management
  21. Chapter 9. Data management
  22. Part 3. Operations
  23. Chapter 10. Backup and recovery
  24. Chapter 11. High availability with database mirroring
  25. Chapter 12. DBCC validation
  26. Chapter 13. Index design and maintenance
  27. Chapter 14. Monitoring and automation
  28. Chapter 15. Data Collector and MDW
  29. Chapter 16. Resource Governor
  30. Chapter 17. Waits and queues: a performance-tuning methodology
  31. Appendix A. Top 25 DBA worst practices
  32. Appendix B. Suggested DBA work plan
  33. Appendix C. Common Performance Monitor counters
  34. Appendix D. Top 10 Management Studio enhancements
  35. Appendix E. Date/time data types in SQL Server 2008
  36. Index
  37. List of Figures
  38. List of Tables
  39. List of Listings