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SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials

You're reading from   SQL Server 2014 Development Essentials Design, implement, and deliver a successful database solution with Microsoft SQL Server 2014.

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ISBN-13 9781782172550
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Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq
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Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq
Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq is an internationally known Lead SQL DBA, trainer, and technical author with twelve years' experience of the Microsoft technology stack. He is an accomplished development and production SQL Server DBA with a proven record of delivering major projects on time and within budget. He is an expert at evaluating the clients' needs against the capabilities of the SQL Server product set, with the objective of minimizing costs and maximizing functions by making innovative use of advance capabilities. Basit has authored numerous SQL Server technical articles on various SQL Server topics for different SQL Server community sites, which include SQLMag.com, MSSQLTips.com, SQLServerCentral.com, SSWUG.org, SQL-Server-Performance.com, and SearchSQLServer.com. He has also developed and implemented many successful database infrastructures, data warehouses, and business intelligence projects. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from London Metropolitan University and industry-standard certifications from Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Brainbench, ProSoft, and APM, which include MCITP Database Administrator 2008, MCITP Database Administrator 2005, MCDBA SQL Server 2000 and MCTS .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications. He also has a good understanding of ITIL principles. He can be reached via Twitter (@BasitAali), his blog (http://basitaalishan.com), or via LinkedIn (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/basitfarooq). He was a technical reviewer for SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints, Marlon Ribunal and Mickey Stuewe, Packt Publishing and Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012, James Serra and Bill Anton, Packt Publishing.
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Preface 1. Microsoft SQL Server Database Design Principles FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding DDL and DCL Statements in SQL Server 3. Data Retrieval Using Transact-SQL Statements 4. Data Modification with SQL Server Transact-SQL Statements 5. Understanding Advanced Database Programming Objects and Error Handling 6. Performance Basics Index

Understanding the purpose of SQL Server 2014 system databases

Before you start creating databases on a SQL Server 2014 instance, you should have a good understanding of the system databases that are installed by default when a SQL Server 2014 instance is created. Each SQL Server 2014 system database has a specific purpose and is required to run SQL Server. So, having a good understanding of the SQL Server system databases is useful when you are troubleshooting SQL Server issues.

SQL Server 2014 system databases

By default, when you install a SQL Server 2014 instance, the SQL Server 2014 setup program creates the following five system databases: master, model, msdb, tempdb, and resource. Apart from these system databases, there is another system database called distribution that does not exist until you configure replication on the SQL Server instance.

The master database

The master database, as its name implies, is the most important database in a SQL Server 2014 instance. In fact, it is the...

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Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq is an internationally known Lead SQL DBA, trainer, and technical author with twelve years' experience of the Microsoft technology stack. He is an accomplished development and production SQL Server DBA with a proven record of delivering major projects on time and within budget. He is an expert at evaluating the clients' needs against the capabilities of the SQL Server product set, with the objective of minimizing costs and maximizing functions by making innovative use of advance capabilities. Basit has authored numerous SQL Server technical articles on various SQL Server topics for different SQL Server community sites, which include SQLMag.com, MSSQLTips.com, SQLServerCentral.com, SSWUG.org, SQL-Server-Performance.com, and SearchSQLServer.com. He has also developed and implemented many successful database infrastructures, data warehouses, and business intelligence projects. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from London Metropolitan University and industry-standard certifications from Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Brainbench, ProSoft, and APM, which include MCITP Database Administrator 2008, MCITP Database Administrator 2005, MCDBA SQL Server 2000 and MCTS .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications. He also has a good understanding of ITIL principles. He can be reached via Twitter (@BasitAali), his blog (http://basitaalishan.com), or via LinkedIn (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/basitfarooq). He was a technical reviewer for SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Blueprints, Marlon Ribunal and Mickey Stuewe, Packt Publishing and Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012, James Serra and Bill Anton, Packt Publishing.
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