Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches

Summary

Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches is the perfect way to get started with SQL Server operations, including maintenance, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance monitoring. In about an hour a day over a month, you’ll learn exactly what you can do, and what you shouldn’t touch. Most importantly, you’ll learn the day-to-day tasks and techniques you need to keep SQL Server humming along smoothly.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Book

Microsoft SQL Server is used by millions of businesses, ranging in size from Fortune 500s to small shops worldwide. Whether you’re just getting started as a DBA, supporting a SQL Server-driven application, or you’ve been drafted by your office as the SQL Server admin, you do not need a thousand-page book to get up and running.

Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches is the perfect way to get started with SQL Server. This concise, easy-to-read book skips academic introductions and teaches you day-to-day techniques for maintenance, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, and more. Each of the 21 short lessons gives you practical takeaways you’ll use over and over.

What’s Inside

• Master the basics—indexes, logins, backup, recovery … and more
• Learn what you can and cannot do when supporting a third-party application
• Monitor and improve performance
• Written by expert trainer and bestselling author Don Jones
• Accessible to readers of any level of experience, the book covers techniques for all versions of SQLServer 2005-2014.

About the Author

Don Jones is a Microsoft MVP, speaker, and trainer. He is the creator of the Month of Lunches series and author of over 50 books on PowerShell, IIS, Active Directory, SCCM, SQL Server, and more.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Before you begin
Chapter 2 Server assessment and configuration
Chapter 3 T-SQL crash course
Chapter 4 Managing databases
Chapter 5 Backup and recovery
Chapter 6 Authentication: who are you?
Chapter 7 Authorization: what are you allowed to do?
Chapter 8 Accounting: what did you do?
Chapter 9 Analyzing indexes
Chapter 10 Maintaining indexes
Chapter 11 Tuning index designs
Chapter 12 Reading query execution plans
Chapter 13 Block and deadlock analysis
Chapter 14 Automating management with SQL Server Agent
Chapter 15 Multiserver management
Chapter 16 Windows PowerShell and SQL Server
Chapter 17 Using Extended Events
Chapter 18 Monitoring and analyzing performance
Chapter 19 Options for high availability
Chapter 20 Virtualizing SQL Server
Chapter 21 Moving, migrating, and upgrading databases
Chapter 22 SQL Server performance checklist
Chapter 23 Never the end
Appendix: Installing SQL Server