You're reading from SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954326

Pages 522 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

SQL

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

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 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

In the first chapter, we saw that SQL Server is a complex software suite consisting of many services that work together. Based on the deployment scenario, we can have even more instances of SQL Server services running on the same host. SQL Server Database Engine is usually a key service in the Enterprise environment because many other applications and tools depend on SQL Server for their primary data storage. It's a crucial task to keep our SQL Server environment healthy, not only with proper maintenance and monitoring but also with proper post-installation configuration. Installation, as we have seen in the first chapter, is not just about configuring many of the settings and keeping the default values. A default configuration might not be ideal for your production environment, and it's important to understand the benefits of any modifications to the default values. The goal of this chapter is to provide the basic post...