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Training Kit Exam 70-462: Administering Microsoft® SQL Sever® 2012 Databases
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Training Kit Exam 70-462: Administering Microsoft® SQL Sever® 2012 Databases

by Peter Ward Orin Thomas and boB Taylor
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
19h 54m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Training Kit Exam 70-462: Administering Microsoft® SQL Sever® 2012 Databases

Chapter 11. SQL Server Agent, Backup, and Restore

Exam objectives in this chapter:

  • Manage SQL Server Agent.

  • Configure and maintain a back up strategy.

  • Restore databases.

Any task you must perform more than a few times is a task that you can automate. Automating tasks minimizes the amount of time you have to spend performing repetitive work and ensures that repetitive tasks are carried out in a consistent manner. SQL Server Agent is the key to automating Microsoft SQL Server administration tasks.

As a database administrator, it is your responsibility to ensure that the databases you are responsible for managing are properly backed up. When developing a data protection strategy, you must understand all the backup options that are available with SQL Server ...

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