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Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019

By : Kellyn Gorman, Allan Hirt, Dave Noderer, Mitchell Pearson, James Rowland-Jones, Dustin Ryan, Arun Sirpal, Buck Woody
Book Image

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019

By: Kellyn Gorman, Allan Hirt, Dave Noderer, Mitchell Pearson, James Rowland-Jones, Dustin Ryan, Arun Sirpal, Buck Woody

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server comes equipped with industry-leading features and the best online transaction processing capabilities. If you are looking to work with data processing and management, getting up to speed with Microsoft Server 2019 is key. Introducing SQL Server 2019 takes you through the latest features in SQL Server 2019 and their importance. You will learn to unlock faster querying speeds and understand how to leverage the new and improved security features to build robust data management solutions. Further chapters will assist you with integrating, managing, and analyzing all data, including relational, NoSQL, and unstructured big data using SQL Server 2019. Dedicated sections in the book will also demonstrate how you can use SQL Server 2019 to leverage data processing platforms, such as Apache Hadoop and Spark, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to control your data and efficiently monitor it. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with all the features of Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and understand how to use them confidently to build robust data management solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

SQL Server availability feature overview

This section will provide an overview of the availability features in SQL Server 2019. All of the features described in this section are supported using physical or virtualized servers (virtual machines, or VMs), whether those VMs are on-premises running under a traditional hypervisor or up in the public cloud as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Other platform-based features, such as those provided by a hypervisor, are often part of an overall availability strategy for SQL Server but are outside the scope of this chapter.

Backup and restore

The cornerstone of any business continuity plan is a solid backup strategy with tested restores. In other words, the backup and restore feature is the most basic form of availability in any edition of SQL Server. No matter what else you implement, be it one of the built-in features of SQL Server or some third-party utility, ensure this key component of business continuity is implemented properly...