May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
31h 14m
English
book
SQL Server 2022 Administration Inside Out
by Randolph West, Melody Zacharias, William Assaf, Deepthi Goguri, Elizabeth Noble, Meagan Longoria, Joseph D'Antoni, Louis Davidson
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Foreword
The world of data is getting more complicated. As threats and technologies evolve, businesses may fall behind.
As a consultant before joining Microsoft, I walked into an industrial plant where the sysadmins did not know what SQL Server backup was. To them, a file system backup or virtual machine (VM) storage snapshot was enough. (It is not enough.) I worked with a small regional bank that thought a 3 TB+ SQL Server transaction log file was just the cost of doing business. I helped a healthcare broker that was being actively probed via SQL injection attacks. In each case, the seeds of business-crippling disaster were planted, waiting to sprout.
As a reader of this book, you likely know the basics of what is necessary to secure your data ...