The industry’s most complete, useful, and up-to-date guide to SQL Server 2014.
You’ll find
start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s core database server
and management capabilities: all the real-world information, tips,
guidelines, and examples you’ll need to install, monitor,
maintain, and optimize the
most complex database environments. The provided examples and
sample code provide plenty of hands-on opportunities to learn more
about SQL Server and create your own viable solutions.
Four leading SQL Server experts present deep practical insights for
administering SQL Server, analyzing and optimizing queries,
implementing data warehouses, ensuring high availability, tuning
performance, and much more. You will benefit from their
behind-the-scenes look into SQL Server, showing what goes on behind
the various wizards and GUI-based tools. You’ll learn how to
use the underlying SQL commands to fully unlock the power and
capabilities of SQL Server.
Writing for all intermediate-to-advanced-level SQL Server
professionals, the authors draw on immense production experience
with SQL Server. Throughout, they focus on successfully applying
SQL Server 2014’s most powerful capabilities and its newest
tools and features.
Detailed information on how to…
Understand SQL Server 2014’s new features and each edition’s capabilities and licensing
Install, upgrade to, and configure SQL Server 2014 for better performance and easier management
Streamline and automate key administration tasks with Smart Admin
Leverage powerful new backup/restore options: flexible backup to URL, Managed Backup to Windows Azure, and encrypted backups
Strengthen security with new features for enforcing “least privilege”
Improve performance with updateable columnstore indexes, Delayed Durability, and other enhancements
Execute queries and business logic more efficiently with memoryoptimized tables, buffer pool extension, and natively-compiled stored procedures
Control workloads and Disk I/O with the Resource Governor
Deploy AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Failover Cluster Instances to achieve enterprise-class availability and disaster recovery
Apply new Business Intelligence improvements in Master Data Services, data quality, and Parallel Data Warehouse