Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices

✍ Scribed by Bradley Ball, TJay Belt, Glenn Berry, Jes Borland, Carlos Bossy, Louis Davidson, Ben DeBow, Grant Fritchey, Jonathan Gardner, Jesper Johansen, Jeremy Lowell, Wendy Pastrick, Kellyn Pot’vin, Mladen Prajdić, Herve Roggero, Chris Shaw, Gail Shaw, Jason Strate (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 492
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues—the book helps you deliver the most value for your company's investment in Microsoft's flagship database system

• Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practices
• Delivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experience
• Focuses upon performance, scalability, reliability
• Helps achieve the predictability needed to be in control at all times

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Be Your Developer’s Best Friend....Pages 1-15
Getting It Right: Designing the Database for Performance....Pages 17-42
Hidden Performance Gotchas....Pages 43-70
Dynamic Management Views....Pages 71-99
From SQL Trace to Extended Events....Pages 101-133
The Utility Database....Pages 135-160
Indexing Outside the Bubble....Pages 161-195
Release Management....Pages 197-219
Compliance and Auditing....Pages 221-234
Automating Administration....Pages 235-270
The Fluid Dynamics of SQL Server Data Movement....Pages 271-292
Windows Azure SQL Database for DBAs....Pages 293-312
I/O: The Untold Story....Pages 313-334
Page and Row Compression....Pages 335-359
Selecting and Sizing the Server....Pages 361-373
Backups and Restores Using Availability Groups....Pages 375-393
Big Data for the SQL Server DBA....Pages 395-428
Tuning for Peak Load....Pages 429-463
Back Matter....Pages 465-477

✦ Subjects

Database Management