September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
The required database maintenance tasks in SQL Server 2008 have remained the same as in earlier versions, and the tools to perform that maintenance are generally the same as they were in SQL Server 2005. Maintenance plans are still the core tool for performing database maintenance. These plans and the tools to create the plans (such as the Maintenance Plan Wizard) look and behave much like they did in SQL Server 2005. Enhancements to the maintenance plans that were introduced in SQL Server 2005 service packs have been carried on to SQL Server 2008.
One new feature related to database maintenance in SQL Server 2008 is the introduction of Database Maintenance Policies (a subset of the Policy-Based Management ...
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