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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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Setting Up SQL Server 2019, offers an overview of the SQL Server technology stack, tooling, and several recipes on how to install technologies and features of SQL Server the right way.

Chapter 2, Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy, provides a plethora of follow-up activities once SQL Server is configured, including post-installation configuration, to follow best practices for maintenance and operations.

Chapter 3, Implementing Backup and Recovery illustrates the importance of data reliability and accessibility as the key responsibilities of every database administrator. It also explains all aspects of proper recovery strategies as well as all the knowledge needed to configure backup and restore strategies properly.

Chapter 4, Securing Your SQL Server, outlines the options for securing the server from a number of perspectives, starting with service accounts, authentication, auditing, and other important tasks for overall security management.

Chapter 5, Working with Disaster Recovery Options, outlines the list of options available to help overcome any disaster when operations go down.

Chapter 6, Indexing and Performance, provides an overview of performance monitoring techniques. As a part of performance optimization, indexing is also explained here.

Chapter 7, Planning Migration and Upgrade provides practical information on how to plan a migration and upgrade the older version of the SQL Server environment to the current version.

Chapter 8, Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019, shows how to proactively use tools to manage SQL Server 2019 and to monitor its health, together with an in-depth look at techniques and tools used for automation on SQL Server.

Chapter 9, Configuring Always On High-Availability Features, shows practical information and examples of how to plan, configure, and manage Always On configuration for your SQL Server environment and also provides information on the High Availability/Disaster Recovery technology that is required for SQL Server.

Chapter 10, In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use It, illustrates the strong features of In-Memory OLTP in terms of dramatically increasing the throughput of transactions in SQL Server databases by describing how and in which cases to implement, use, and monitor In-Memory OLTP.

Chapter 11, Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure, illustrates how cloud solutions have become common in many cases by explaining how Azure can help with several scenarios and also provides an overview of SQL technologies offered by Azure.

Chapter 12, Taming Big Data with SQL Server, incorporates a new feature for managing big data workloads, called big data clusters, but that's not the only option as regards how to work with big data, and in this chapter you'll find out how to tame the monster.

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