Book description
An essential how-to guide for experienced DBAs on the most significant product release since 2005!
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 will have major changes throughout the SQL Server and will impact how DBAs administer the database. With this book, a team of well-known SQL Server experts introduces the many new features of the most recent version of SQL Server and deciphers how these changes will affect the methods that administrators have been using for years. Loaded with unique tips, tricks, and workarounds for handling the most difficult SQL Server admin issues, this how-to guide deciphers topics such as performance tuning, backup and recovery, scaling and replication, clustering, and security.
Serves as a must-have how-to guide on the new features of the 2012 release of Microsoft SQL Server
Walks you through ways to manage and monitor SQL Server and automate administration
Guides you through SQL Azure for cloud computing, data replication, and data warehouse performance improvements
Addresses client-connectivity enhancements, new features that ensure high availability of mission-critical applications, and tighter integration with Excel and SharePoint for data analysis and reporting
Highlights major changes to the suite of SQL Server BI tools, including integration, reporting, and analysis services
Includes real-world case examples and best practices from Microsoft insiders
If you're a database administrator eager to get started with the newest version of SQL Server, then this book is essential reading.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Chapter 1: SQL Server 2012 Architecture
- Chapter 2: Installing SQL Server 2012 Best Practices
- Chapter 3: Upgrading SQL Server 2012 Best Practices
- Chapter 4: Managing and Troubleshooting the Database Engine
- Chapter 5: Automating SQL Server
- Chapter 6: Service Broker in SQL Server 2012
- Chapter 7: SQL Server CLR Integration
- Chapter 8: Securing the Database Instance
- Chapter 9: Change Management
- Chapter 10: Configuring the Server for Optimal Performance
- Chapter 11: Optimizing SQL Server 2012
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Chapter 12: Monitoring Your SQL Server
- The Goal of Monitoring
- Choosing the Appropriate Monitoring Tools
- Performance Monitor
- Monitoring Events
- Monitoring with Dynamic Management Views and Functions
- Monitoring Logs
- Management Data Warehouse
- SQL Server Standard Reports
- System Center Management Pack
- SQL Server Best Practice Analyzer
- System Center Advisor
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Performance Tuning T-SQL
- Chapter 14: Indexing Your Database
- Chapter 15: Replication
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Chapter 16: Clustering SQL Server 2012
- Clustering and Your Organization
- Clustering: The Big Picture
- Upgrading SQL Server Clustering
- Getting Prepared for Clustering
- Clustering Windows Server 2008
- Clustering Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
- Clustering SQL Server 2012
- Managing and Monitoring the Cluster
- Troubleshooting Cluster Problems
- Summary
- Chapter 17: Backup and Recovery
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Chapter 18: SQL Server 2012 LOG Shipping
- Log Shipping Deployment Scenarios
- Log-Shipping Architecture
- Log Shipping Process
- System Requirements
- Deploying Log Shipping
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Managing Changing Roles
- Database Backup Plan
- Integrating Log Shipping with Other High-Availability Solutions
- Removing Log Shipping
- Log-Shipping Performance
- Upgrading to SQL Server 2012 Log Shipping
- Summary
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Chapter 19: Database Mirroring
- Overview of Database Mirroring
- Operating Modes of Database Mirroring
- Database Mirroring In Action
- Database Mirroring and SQL Server 2012 Editions
- Database Mirroring Catalog Views
- Database Mirroring Role Change
- Database Availability Scenarios
- Monitoring Database Mirroring
- Troubleshooting Database Mirroring
- Preparing the Mirror Server for Failover
- Mirroring Multiple Databases
- Database Mirroring and Other High-Availability Solutions
- Mirroring Event Listener Setup
- Database Snapshots
- Summary
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Chapter 20: Integration Services Administration and Performance Tuning
- A Tour of Integration Services
- Administration of the Integration Services Service
- Administration of Integration Services Packages in Package Deployment Model
- Administration of Integration Services Packages in Project Deployment Model
- Execution and Scheduling
- Applying Security to Integration Services
- Summary
- Chapter 21: Analysis Services Administration and Performance Tuning
- Chapter 22: SQL Server Reporting Services Administration
- Chapter 23: SQL Server 2012 Sharepoint 2010 Integration
- Chapter 24: SQL Azure Administration and Configuration
- Chapter 25: Alwayson Availability Groups
- Introduction
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Product information
- Title: Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Administration
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2012
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9781118106884
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