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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782172550
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq Basit A. Masood-Al-Farooq
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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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