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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Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server

In this last chapter, we will work with data outside of SQL Server. We will introduce technologies that can be used to access external data that also have capabilities that are used for big data processing. One of the newest features of SQL Server 2019 is known as Big Data Clusters, which combines the workload of SQL Server, scalable storage filesystems, and the Spark engine using containers managed by Kubernetes. This will take us away from the common relational data approach we are used to in SQL Server.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics: