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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

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Overview of this book

Take advantage of the real power of SQL Server 2017 with all its new features, in addition to covering core database administration tasks. This book will give you a competitive advantage by helping you quickly learn how to design, manage, and secure your database solution. You will learn how to set up your SQL Server and configure new (and existing) environments for optimal use. After covering the designing aspect, the book delves into performance-tuning aspects by teaching you how to effectively use indexes. The book will also teach you about certain choices that need to be made about backups and how to implement a rock-solid security policy and keep your environment healthy. Finally, you will learn about the techniques you should use when things go wrong, and other important topics, such as migration, upgrading, and consolidation, are covered in detail. Integration with Azure is also covered in depth. Whether you are an administrator or thinking about entering the field, this book will provide you with all the skills you need to successfully create, design, and deploy databases using SQL Server 2017.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Migration and Upgrade

Although this book is about SQL Server 2017, you're not always working with the latest versions and editions of SQL Server. You may be surprised how diverse versions of SQL Server are still in production and you will face a task of upgrading and migrating the server configuration and the content to the new server running the latest version of SQL Server. Each new version of SQL Server brings out many new features that are not available in the older versions and they may be very useful for your environment to bring better performance, stability, and many other factors to your application.

Migration of SQL Server is also usually bound to new hardware for the server or a virtual machine with the latest operating system using new features, so you can actually upgrade the whole platform, not just SQL Server.

We will be covering the following topics in the...