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SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

By : Marek Chmel, Vladimír Mužný
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SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

By: Marek Chmel, Vladimír Mužný

Overview of this book

SQL Server is one of the most popular relational database management systems developed by Microsoft. This second edition of the SQL Server Administrator's Guide will not only teach you how to administer an enterprise database, but also help you become proficient at managing and keeping the database available, secure, and stable. You’ll start by learning how to set up your SQL Server and configure new and existing environments for optimal use. The book then takes you through designing aspects and delves into performance tuning by showing you how to use indexes effectively. You’ll understand certain choices that need to be made about backups, implement security policy, and discover how to keep your environment healthy. Tools available for monitoring and managing a SQL Server database, including automating health reviews, performance checks, and much more, will also be discussed in detail. As you advance, the book covers essential topics such as migration, upgrading, and consolidation, along with the techniques that will help you when things go wrong. Once you’ve got to grips with integration with Azure and streamlining big data pipelines, you’ll learn best practices from industry experts for maintaining a highly reliable database solution. Whether you are an administrator or are looking to get started with database administration, this SQL Server book will help you develop the skills you need to successfully create, design, and deploy database solutions.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment
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Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance
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Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure

Microsoft Azure, as well as other cloud technologies, have been growing over the last couple of years and nowadays, they can cover every global, technical, or business need without compromise. When it comes to Microsoft SQL Server, we can provision it on-premises, but SQL Server can also be completely hosted in cloud environments. Nowadays, we see more hosting alternatives for SQL Server in Azure, and this sometimes leads to a point of confusion for on-premises DBAs. In this chapter, we will describe a set of server and serverless technologies offered by Azure for database hosting. We will also take an end-to-end and step-by-step look at some samples of several features, such as data files in Azure, backing up to URL, and managing backups to Azure. We will provide an overview of what's possible in Azure when manipulating data, and then we will go through some hybrid scenarios where we'll be combining on-premise instances of...