CHAPTER 6
Expanding Your Tool Set
The native tools that Microsoft provides to you become more flexible with each version released, adding more functionality to help database professionals leverage them and put them to use in practical ways. By enhancing your DBA tool set, you can rapidly deploy these techniques without much of a learning curve. I will expand your DBA tool set here and discuss the new tools and features in SQL Server version 2012, as well as other free and downloadable tools you should be aware of.
New Tools
With respect to performance monitoring and system health, there are some new neat features in SQL Server, many introduced ...
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