Part 3: The Right Tool for the Job

This part will demonstrate the multiple supporting tools you can leverage to build, monitor, test, and optimize or troubleshoot different types of databases in production systems. Choosing the right tools at the beginning can determine your level of success or failure. We will walk through the key characteristics of these tools, provide a baseline for reference, and give practical examples of how to use, build, and operate them alongside your databases.

This part comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 8, Zero-Touch Operations
• Chapter 9, Design and Implementation
• Chapter 10, Tooling for Database Automation