| | |  | Remote Access | Home » » » Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed Ray Rankins Paul Bertucci Chris Gallelli Alex T. Silverstein Includes full coverage of SQL Server 2008 in addition to R2 coverage This is the industry’s most comprehensive and useful guide to SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. It presents start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s core database server and management capabilities, plus complete introductions to Integration, Reporting, and Analysis Services, application development, and much more. Four expert SQL Server administrators, developers, and consultants have packed this book with real-world information, tips, guidelines, and samples drawn from their own extensive experience creating and managing complex database solutions. Writing for intermediate-to-advanced-level SQL Server professionals, they focus on the product’s most complex and powerful capabilities, and its newest tools and features. For example, you’ll find invaluable information on administering SQL Server more efficiently, analyzing and optimizing queries, implementing data warehouses, ensuring high availability, and tuning performance. The accompanying CD-ROM contains an extraordinary library of practical tools and information including sample databases and all code examples. Whether you’re responsible for SQL Server 2008 analysis, design, implementation, support, administration, or troubleshooting, no other book offers you this much value. - Understand the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 environment, R2’s newest features, and each edition’s capabilities
- Manage SQL Server 2008 more effectively with SQL Server Management Studio, the SQLCMD command-line query tool, and Powershell
- Efficiently manage security, users, backup/restore, replication, Database Mail, and database objects–from tables and indexes to stored procedures and triggers
- Increase availability with clustering, database mirroring, and other features
- Use new Policy-Based Management to centrally configure and operate SQL Server throughout the organization
- Use SQL Server Profiler to capture queries and identify bottlenecks
- Improve performance by optimizing queries, design more effective databases, and manage workloads with the new Resource Governor
- Develop applications using SQL Server 2008’s enhancements to T-SQL and SQLCLR, .NET integration, LINQ to SQL, XML, and XQuery
- Make the most of Analysis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services–especially Microsoft’s new R2 reporting improvements
- Improve data security using Column-level and Transparent Data Encryption
Ray Rankins, president of Gotham Consulting Services, has worked with Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server for more than 23 years and is coauthor of Sybase SQL Server Unleashed, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed. Paul Bertucci, founder of Database Architechs, has more than 30 years of experience in database design, architecture, replication, tuning, integration, and high availability. Chris Gallelli, president of CGAL Consulting Services, specializes in database administration, tuning, and programming. Alex T. Silverstein is managing principal and chief architect of Unified Digital Group, LLC, a developer of custom SQL Server and Microsoft .NET solutions. CD-ROM includes: - 15 additional chapters
- Code samples, scripts, and databases utilized within the book
- Free version of SQL Shot (performance & tuning software)
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 Useful technical reference for SQL DBANov 29, 2010
By charles pyle
Microsoft keeps adding new functionality to SQL server so the latest version, SQL 2008 R2, has become vastly complex. So much so that Microsoft has divided up their DBA certifications into three specializations: core DBA and developer and BI. Correspondingly, technical books on SQL 2008 tend to be divided up along the same lines. Thus I would have thought it would be impossible to cover the whole in a single book. But this book attempts to do just that. And it does a pretty good job, in my opinion. Of course it cannot go into great depth on any one subject, but it goes into enough depth to be useful to a practicing DBA in any of the three categories.
They manage it by making the book huge. So huge that, apparently, it can't all be printed in a single book. So when you buy the book, you get a book that is around 1700 pages (1550 pages of text and about 100 pages of index and 50 of front material) and in the back of the book is a CD that contains another 800 or so pages in PDF files. To put it in other words, the first 41 chapters are printed in the book, but chapters 42-56 are in digital format in the companion CD. So technically all of the chapters are in the book but only some of them are printed in the book.
I have found that with many technical books, after you get the book, you have to hunt around on the internet for sample databases, code listings, sample files, etc., as if they hadn't finished developing the code till after the book was published. And in my experience this hunt too often ends, at the cost of too much of my time, with limited success or complete failure. It was a pleasant surprise to find that all of the code and samples referenced in this book are on the companion CD included in the back of the book. And the code is very handily organized by chapter and by specific listing. I didn't check all the code, but I looked up and tried numerous chunks of code that was of special interest to me and I didn't encounter a single example of code referenced in the book that was not on the CD and in identical format.
Turning to the content of the book, it covers the basics - editions of SQL, installation, backup and restore, table structure, indexes, etc. In the CD is a section (chapters 42-50) for SQL developers that seems to hit all the important new stuff in SQL 2008. And there is also an impressive section of 3 chapters on the CD for BI including not only SSAS, but also SSIS and SSRS.
But I focused more on the relatively new technology, especially the stuff I am interested in. I couldn't think of a single topic that was not covered, at least to some extent. I found the following were discussed in enough depth to be useful to me: transparent data encryption, table compression, auditing, resource governor, service broker, table partitioning, and the use of various DMVs. I examined and tested the code in all of these areas and found only one query that didn't work - Listing 24.22, which is supposed to return details on partitioned tables. I did not test it on their sample database, but on one of my own development databases that is partitioned. It required the change of only one variable, and I have considerable experience with partitioning, but couldn't get it to work. I must admit I didn't spend a lot of time trying to debug the query though.
I found only one example of poor editing, and that was a case of repetition of the same several paragraphs of text on p. 29-30 and again on 42-43.
In conclusion, I recommend this book as a useful resource for any type of SQL DBA to have on hand. It not only has useful discussions of almost every topic in the SQL 2008 R2 world, but it has a lot of useful code.
37 of 42 found the following review helpful:
 Very poor QA process...Jan 30, 2011
By 1PBFOOT
"1PBFOOT"
To be honest, I have never seen such a poor QA process for a book. The chapter I was most interested in has numerous errors in it. Let me explain...
This book comes with a CD containing another ~800 pages of supplemental chapters. Chapter 52, in PDF format on the CD, contains info on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). However, the CD's Chapter 52 code samples aren't for PDF Chapter 52--they're under the Chapter 46 folder. The "Chapter46_AllCodeExamples.sql" file has the correct code... For the first exercise in the chapter, if you paste the right code into the export query window & click "Parse" (like it says to do in the book), you'll get an error that says "Incorrect syntax near '`'." Unless you're already a SQL guru that knows the authors accidentally used the Unicode "open single quote" character as opposed to the standard ASCII apostrophe, you'll be lost. Once you fix that problem and click "Parse" again, you'll get the following 3 errors...
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Invalid column name 'CustomerType'.
Invalid column name 'CustomerType'.
Invalid column name 'customerid'. (Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0)
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Apparently, the code in both the PDF and the code samples files include columns that aren't in Microsoft's "AdventureWorks2008" database. With further research, the book has multiple typos indicating to use the "AdventureWorks2008" database--the code should use be run against the "AdventureWorks" database.
Also, be forewarned that later in that chapter, if you choose to use the supplied .DTSX package to do the exercises in Visual Studio, the book doesn't include information on how to change the package's SQL Server name from the default "DBARCH-LT2\SQL08DE01" to your server name/instance. But unless you resolve the problems listed in the previous paragraph, it won't matter anyway since the destination table won't exist for the package...
Unfortunately, it looks like it's not simply a matter of Chapters 46 and 52 being swapped... It looks like the authors reorganized the PDF chapters, but didn't inform those responsible for the code samples...
Needless to say, I'm disappointed in the QA process. Checking on InformIT's site, there is no mention of errata or links to updated files...
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 A case where the Kindle book beats print?May 15, 2011
By Lance M. Andrewes
"lancenz"
I purchased the Kindle edition and am pleased to report that it does contain all 56 chapters, so no need to download "part 2" of the book as a pdf. The graphics are in colour and in all cases the text in screen-dumps is readable (if fuzzy). The index uses a notation like "CD:2331" when referring to pages that are on the pdf included with the print edition. Thankfully these links take you to the correct location in the Kindle book.
The content is wide ranging but don't expect miracles in what is now a huge platform. For example Master Data Services gets only a short overview. Overall the book is very good value.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
An Oracle DBA says "Get this book for SQL Server"Jan 10, 2011
By Earl D. Shaffer
"OracleMan"
As a very senior Oracle DBA, often clients have Oracle and SQL Server. In some sites, I am asked to do some SQL Server admin. So I need to keep up with SQL Server. For me, the best way, is to read books and try out things in a not-used-throw-away DB. But like Oracle books, SQL Server books vary in quality and coverage. This book gets 5-stars for both.
Its big. Very big. Its long because it covers so much. The writing style is to point, and very clear. Many of these books are too much developer-only. This is DBA and developer friends. Too many books are filled with online doc and tons of screen prints to 'burn the page count' and fill it with fluff. This has the right balance between detail and coverage.
But the biggest plus - it is not just a reference book. It has tons of examples and that helps non-SQL Server experts learn. It cover SQL Server 2008 new features, and SQL Server 2008 R2 new features. It has just the right balance of 'old' and 'new' feature details.
Just a great book for Oracle DBAs and SQL Server DBAs.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Indispensible for DBA'sFeb 09, 2011
By Lindsay Addie
After gaining my MCITP:EA qualification I decided to study for one of the Microsoft SQL Server exams (70-432) to add depth to my IT knowledge and also make myself more marketable in the IT world.
I had seen and read chunks of the earlier the excellent 2005 edition of this worthy tome. So I wasn't surprised that this new edition is very readable and I find myself picking it up more and more to browse. It is suitable for anyone who wants to be a database administrator or who is already a DBA. The copious code samples used are just what I want from a good SQL Server manual. I don't think it is a good choice for a beginner (which is born out by the user level: intermediate - advanced recommendation on the back cover).
Of the topics covered indexing, backup and recovery, and general database management are given suitably in-depth coverage. One final comment on the usability of this weighty tome is that it is well bound and actually stays open at any page which is usually not the case with a book this large. I warmly recommend this book and suggest it should be on every DBA's bookshelf.
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