Book description
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 lets you learn from the best in the business—64 SQL Server MVPs offer completely new content in this second volume on topics ranging from testing and policy management to integration services, reporting, and performance optimization techniques...and more.
About the Technology
About the Book
To become an MVP requires deep knowledge and impressive skill. Together, the 64 MVPs who wrote this book bring about 1,000 years of experience in SQL Server administration, development, training, and design. This incredible book captures their expertise and passion in 60 concise, hand-picked chapters.
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 picks up where the first volume leaves off, with completely new content on topics ranging from testing and policy management to integration services, reporting, and performance optimization. The chapters fall into five parts: Architecture and Design, Database Administration, Database Development, Performance Tuning and Optimization, and Business Intelligence.
What's Inside
- Discovering servers with PowerShell
- Using regular expressions in SSMS
- Tuning the Transaction Log for OLTP
- Optimizing SSIS for dimensional data
- Real-time BI
- Much more
About the Reader
This unique book is your chance to learn from the best in the business. It offers valuable insights for readers of all levels.
About the Authors
Written by 64 SQL Server MVPs, the chapters were selected and edited by Kalen Delaney and Section Editors Louis Davidson (Architecture and Design), Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp (Database Administration), Paul Nielsen (Database Development), Brad McGehee (Performance Tuning and Optimization), and Greg Low (Business Intelligence).
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Table of contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- MVP authors and their chapters
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About Operation Smile
- About this book
- About the Editors
- About SQL Server MVPs
- Part 1. Architecture
- Chapter 1. Where are my keys?
- Chapter 2. “Yes, we are all individuals” A look at uniqueness in the world of SQL
- Chapter 3. Architectural growth pains
- Chapter 4. Characteristics of a great relational database
- Chapter 5. Storage design considerations
- Chapter 6. Generalization: the key to a well-designed schema
- Part 2. Database administration
- Chapter 7. Increasing availability through testing
- Chapter 8. Page restores
- Chapter 9. Capacity planning
- Chapter 10. Discovering your servers with PowerShell and SMO
- Chapter 11. Will the real Mr. Smith please stand up?
- Chapter 12. Build your own SQL Server 2008 performance dashboard
- Chapter 13. SQL Server cost recovery
- Chapter 14. Best practice compliance with Policy-Based Management
- Chapter 15. Using SQL Server Management Studio to the fullest
- Chapter 16. Multiserver management and Utility Explorer—best tools for the DBA
- Chapter 17. Top 10 SQL Server admin student misconceptions
- Chapter 18. High availability of SQL Server in the context of Service Level Agreements
- Part 3. Database development
- Chapter 19. T-SQL: bad habits to kick
- Chapter 20. Death by UDF
- Chapter 21. Using regular expressions in SSMS
- Chapter 22. SQL Server Denali: what’s coming next in T-SQL
- Chapter 23. Creating your own data type
- Chapter 24. Extracting data with regular expressions
- Chapter 25. Relational division
- Chapter 26. SQL FILESTREAM: to BLOB or not to BLOB
- Chapter 27. Writing unit tests for Transact-SQL
- Chapter 28. Getting asynchronous with Service Broker
- Chapter 29. Effective use of HierarchyId
- Chapter 30. Let Service Broker help you scale your application
- Part 4. Performance tuning and optimization
- Chapter 31. Hardware 201: selecting and sizing database server hardware
- Chapter 32. Parameter sniffing: your best friend... except when it isn’t
- Chapter 33. Investigating the plan cache
- Chapter 34. What are you waiting for? An introduction to waits and queues
- Chapter 35. You see sets, and I see loops
- Chapter 36. Performance-tuning the transaction log for OLTP workloads
- Chapter 37. Strategies for unraveling tangled code
- Chapter 38. Using PAL to analyze SQL Server performance
- Chapter 39. Tuning JDBC for SQL Server
- Part 5. Business intelligence
- Chapter 40. Creating a formal Reporting Services report part library
- Chapter 41. Improving report layout and visualization
- Chapter 42. Developing sharable managed code expressions in SSRS
- Chapter 43. Designing reports with custom MDX queries
- Chapter 44. Building a scale-out Reporting Services farm
- Chapter 45. Creating SSRS reports from SSAS
- Chapter 46. Optimizing SSIS for dimensional data loads
- Chapter 47. SSIS configurations management
- Chapter 48. Exploring different types of enumerators in the SSIS Foreach Loop container
- Chapter 49. Late-arriving dimensions in SSIS
- Chapter 50. Why automate tasks with SSIS?
- Chapter 51. Extending SSIS using the Script component
- Chapter 52. ETL design checklist
- Chapter 53. Autogenerating SSAS cubes
- Chapter 54. Scripting SSAS databases – AMO and PowerShell, Better Together
- Chapter 55. Managing context in MDX
- Chapter 56. Using time intelligence functions in PowerPivot
- Chapter 57. Easy BI with Silverlight PivotViewer
- Chapter 58. Excel as a BI frontend tool
- Chapter 59. Real-time BI with StreamInsight
- Chapter 60. BI solution development design considerations
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2011
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617290473
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