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SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide

You're reading from   SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide A definitive guide for DBAs to implement, monitor, and maintain enterprise database solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954326
Length 522 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Marek Chmel Marek Chmel
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Vladimír Mužný Vladimír Mužný
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

When working with databases, we always need to know how to recover them when damage occurs. This chapter was intended mostly as a syntactical guide for correct backup planning and performing for several types of databases, such as OLTP user databases, big databases, and system databases. A GUI alternative is also possible, but using syntax is a better approach when automating backup tasks when some corruption occurs. Syntax is never lost in dialogs of SQL Server Management Studio.

In this chapter, we learned about internal data handling. This knowledge is an advantage not only for backups and restores, but also for a better understanding when we cover optimizing databases.

We also learned about the backup capabilities of on-premises SQL Server instances. Through examples, we understood how to use backups to restore databases in many scenarios. We also learned the impact of backup procedures already being used on restore abilities that are measured by the RPO and RTO criteria...

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