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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)

Summary

To imagine an administrator's world without automation is really hard. SQL Server provides a very comprehensive set of tools and techniques to achieve comfortable regular administration and reduce administration to non-regular monitoring or troubleshooting actions.

In the first part of this chapter, we went through Database Mail and SQL Server Agent setup. The main point here is to have Database Mail and mainly SQL Server Agent running all the time when SQL Server runs.

In the second part, we paid attention to Maintenance Plans, a very useful tool to create a base set of automatic SQL Server administration. We realized that maintenance plans are dividable into smaller subplans, which can be executed on their own schedules.

The last part of the chapter was dedicated to show, in the form of examples, all traditional objects maintained by SQL Server Agent--jobs, alerts...