You're reading from SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide A definitive guide for DBAs to implement, monitor, and maintain enterprise database solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954326

Length 522 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Database Administration

Authors (2):

Marek Chmel

Vladimír Mužný

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance

5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery

6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server

7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options

8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance

9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade

11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features

13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it

14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure

15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server

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Summary

With this chapter, we have concluded our journey of the SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide. We began this journey by looking at planning and installation before moving on to security, backup, and high availability. After that, we looked at more advanced topics such as Azure and BDC deployment.

Through this journey, we have learned how to install and upgrade SQL Server, gained the required knowledge to secure our server in terms of principals, permissions, and various encryption types, and also learned how to plan and implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery technologies such as AlwaysOn Availability Groups, AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances, Log Shipping, and many others. Apart from this, we have also learned how to plan a restore strategy and plan our backup routine accordingly. After this, we learned how to use various tools to troubleshoot the performance of the server, as well as how to use advanced features to improve the performance and scalability...