Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices
- Authors
- Ball, Bradley & Belt, TJay & Berry, Glenn & Borland, Jes & Bossy, Carlos & Davidson, Louis & Lowell, Jeremy & DeBow, Ben & Fritchey, Grant & Pastrick, Wendy & Pot'vin, Kellyn & Gardner, Jonathan & Johansen, Jesper & Prajdić, Mladen & Roggero, Herve & Shaw, Chris & Shaw, Gail & Strate, Jason
- Publisher
- Apress
- ISBN
- 9781430247708
- Date
- 2012-10-01T07:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 13.40 MB
- Lang
- en
Expert SQL Server Practices is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012.With an emphasis upon performance--but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues--the book helps you deliver the most value for your company's investment in Microsoft's flagship database system
Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practices
Delivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experience
Focuses upon performance, scalability, reliability
Helps achieve the predictability needed to be in control at all times What you'll learn
Migrate to the new Extended Events framework for troubleshooting performance problems
Automate the tracking of key performance indicators such as available disk space, CPU utilization, index fragmentation, and more
Design performance into your database and its applications from the very beginning
Manage staged releases from development to test through to production
Diagnose resource and performance problems via dynamic management views
Analyze I/O patterns and plan reliably to obtain the performance you need
Who this book is for Expert SQL Server Practices is aimed at SQL Server professionals who want to further their careers through expert-level practices in performance management, scalability, predictability, and security.
Contents:
Be Your Developer's Best Friend / Jesper Johansen --
Getting It Right: Designing the Database for Performance / Louis Davidson --
Hidden Performance Gotchas / Gail Shaw --
Dynamic Management Views / Kellyn Pot'vin --
From SQL Trace to Extended Events / Mladen Prajdić --
The Utility Database / Chris Shaw --
Indexing Outside the Bubble / Jason Strate --
Release Management / TJay Belt --
Compliance and Auditing / Jonathan Gardner --
Automating Administration / Jes Borland --
The Fluid Dynamics of SQL Server Data Movement / Wendy Pastrick --
Windows Azure SQL Database for DBAs / Herve Roggero --
I/O: The Untold Story / Jeremy Lowell --
Page and Row Compression / Bradley Ball --
Selecting and Sizing the Server / Glenn Berry --
Backups and Restores Using Availability Groups / Grant Fritchey --
Big Data for the SQL Server DBA / Carlos Bossy --
Tuning for Peak Load / Ben DeBow.