Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Companion by Edward Whalen, Marcilina Garcia, Burzin Patel

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The Barnes & Noble Review
If you're responsible for deploying or administering SQL Server 2005, this book's a goldmine. Straight from Microsoft, it delivers authoritative guidance on everything from planning to tuning, high availability to business intelligence.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Companion offers immense value for DBAs working in any environment, including the most mission-critical. Upfront, it'll help you with capacity planning, then walk you through every facet of installation, upgrading, and network configuration.

It covers all the core DBA fundamentals (creating databases, tables, views, indexes, backup/restore, memory allocation, data partitioning, and so forth). But it includes equally detailed coverage of integration, analysis, reporting, and notification services for business intelligence. And when it's time to implement failover clustering and database mirroring, it'll help you there, too.

Best of all, its final six chapters distill Microsoft's immense experience in tuning and troubleshooting. You deserve that knowledge, don't you? Bill Camarda, from the June 2007 Read Only

From the Publisher

Your one-volume guide to planning, deployment, administration, and support.

Get your mission-critical databases up and running quickly with this essential, single-volume guide. This comprehensive administrator’s reference details features and capabilities of SQL Server 2005—including how to implement business intelligence applications. It delivers the easy-to-follow procedures, practical workarounds, and key troubleshooting tactics you need for on-the-job-results.

Discover how to:
•Perform an installation or upgrade, and configure it on the network
•Plan and configure the I/O subsystem and model system capacity
•Create and maintain databases, tables, views, and indexes
•Administer transactions, deadlocks, and isolation levels
•Manage users with logins, user IDs, schemas, permissions, and roles
•Implement failover clustering, log shipping, and database mirroring for high availability
•Manage and tune snapshot, transactional, and merge replication
•Administer SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services
•Monitor, troubleshoot, and fine-tune performance

Includes a CD with a fully searchable eBook.

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