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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)
1
Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment
4
Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance
9
Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced you to the DR discipline and the big picture of business continuity on SQL Server. DR is not only about having backups, but about the ability to bring the service back so that it can perform operations after severe failures.

We have looked at several options that can be used to implement part of DR on SQL Server, such as log shipping, replication, and mirroring. An HA/DR configuration is an essential step in most SQL Server deployments. All three features we discussed in this chapter are still in use today, although mirroring has been retired in many environments and is being replaced with the more flexible Availability Groups, which will be discussed in Chapter 9, Configuring Always On High Availability Features. Throughout this chapter, you have seen the configuration options for all three features, which can help you deploy them in to your environments.

In the next chapter, we'll focus on indexing strategies and introduce various...