Product Description

Get the practical, pocket-sized guide for IT professionals who need to administer, maintain, and optimize SQL Server 2008. Written by award-winning author William Stanek, this portable reference delivers essential details for using SQL Server 2008 to help protect and manage your company s data whether automating tasks, creating indexes and views, performing backups and recovery, replicating transactions, tuning performance, managing server activity, importing and exporting data, or performing other key tasks. Featuring quick-reference tables, lists, and step-by-step instructions, this handy, one-stop guide provides fast, accurate answers on the spot whether you re at your desk or in the field!
Key Book Benefits
Provides fast facts and immediate reference for administering SQL Server 2008 Delivers must-know details for taking advantage of the improved scalability, security features, and management tools in SQL Server 2008 Features concise tables, easy-to-scan lists, and step-by-step instructions for fast answers, wherever you need them

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52333 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• 672 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780735625891
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
William R. Stanek is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional with more than 20 years of experience in systems management and advanced programming. He is an award-winning author who s written more than 65 books, including WINDOWS SERVER® 2008 INSIDE OUT. He is series editor for the ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT line of books.

Customer Reviews

Great review for an Oracle DBA
Well, I am not a SQL Server DBA. I am an Oracle DBA. But as all Oracle DBAs know, there are more SQL Server databases at Oracle sites then ever before. So, it makes sense to see what is going on over there in SQL Server land.

This is a good book for me - a DBA, not a developer. I did not want a 'how to create an online bookstore with SQL Server' type of book. What I wanted was DBA-info. I was looking for features, commands, syntax, uses, notes, etc.

I think this is a good reference for anyone trying to get info about SQL Server. And for me, a DBA who does not write code, this is a very good book.

Another excellent reference and resource
I must say I am very impressed by this book. William's SQL Server 2005 book was excellent, but this book is even better and packs in even more information. Came in handy during our upgrades and I reference it all the time. I would highly recommend this book to anyone upgrading from previous versions and any current administrators. As a reference manual it can't be beat.

Packed with useful information and lots of T-SQL examples
William Stanek is the #1 Windows authority for a reason, his books are excellent and packed with useful information. This 696-page book is no exception. As with Stanek'sMicrosoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Pocket Consultant Second Edition, I don't see how any SQL admin can live without this book. We're so understaffed and I jump around so many different servers I couldn't function without this.