October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 47m
English
book
Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices
by Bradley Ball, TJay Belt, Glenn Berry, Jes Borland, Carlos Bossy, Louis Davidson, Ben DeBow, Grant Fritchey, Jonathan Gardner, Jesper Johansen, Jeremy Lowell, Wendy Pastrick, Kellyn Pot'vin, Mladen Prajdić, Herve Roggero, Chris Shaw, Gail Shaw, Jason Strate
Overview
Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices Edition is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues—the book helps you deliver the most value for your company's investment in Microsoft's flagship database system
Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practices
Delivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experience
Focuses upon performance, scalability, reliability
Helps achieve the predictability needed to be in control at all times
What you'll learn
Migrate to the new Extended Events framework for troubleshooting performance problems
Automate the tracking of key performance indicators such as available disk space, cpu utilization, index fragmentation, and more
Design performance into your database and its applications from the very beginning
Manage staged releases from development to test through to production
Diagnose resource and performance problems via dynamic management views
Analyze I/O patterns and plan reliably to obtain the performance you need
Who this book is for
Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices is aimed at SQL Server professionals who want to further their careers through expert-level practices in performance management, scalability, predictability, and security.
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