SQL Server MVP Deep Dives

Summary

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 is a unique book that lets you learn from the best in the business - 64 SQL Server MVPs offer completely new content in this second volume on topics ranging from testing and policy management to integration services, reporting, and performance optimization techniques...and more.

To become an MVP requires deep knowledge and impressive skill. Together, the 64 MVPs who wrote this book bring about 1,000 years of experience in SQL Server administration, development, training, and design. This incredible book captures their expertise and passion in 60 concise, hand-picked chapters and offers valuable insights for readers of all levels.

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, Volume 2 picks up where the first volume leaves off, with completely new content on topics ranging from testing and policy management to integration services, reporting, and performance optimization. The chapters fall into five parts: Architecture and Design, Database Administration, Database Development, Performance Tuning and Optimization, and Business Intelligence.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

• Discovering servers with PowerShell
• Using regular expressions in SSMS
• Tuning the Transaction Log for OLTP
• Optimizing SSIS for dimensional data
• Real-time BI and much more

Manning Publications and the authors of this book support the children of Operation Smile, an international children's medical charity that performs free reconstructive surgery for children suffering from facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates by mobilizing medical volunteers who provide education and training programs to local doctors on the latest surgical techniques.

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PART 1 ARCHITECTURE Edited by Louis Davidson

1. Where are my keys? by Ami Levin
2. "Yes, we are all individuals" A look at uniqueness in the world of SQL by Rob Farley
3. Architectural growth pains by Chris Shaw
4. Characteristics of a great relational database by Louis Davidson
5. Storage design considerations by Denny Cherry
6. Generalization: the key to a well-designed schema by Paul Nielsen

PART 2 DATABASE ADMINISTRATION Edited by Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp

7. Increasing availability through testing by Allan Hirt
8. Page restores by Gail Shaw
9. Capacity planning by Greg Larsen
10. Discovering your servers with PowerShell and SMO by Joe Webb
11. Will the real Mr. Smith please stand up? by John Magnabosco
12. Build your own SQL Server 2008 performance dashboard by Pawl Potasinski
13. SQL Server cost recovery by Peter Ward
14. Best practice compliance with Policy-Based Management by Rod Colledge
15. Using SQL Server Management Studio to the fullest by Rodney Landrum
16. Multiserver management and Utility Explorer - best tools for the DBA by Satya Shyam K. Jayanty
17. Top 10 SQL Server admin student misconceptions by Tibor Karaszi
18. High availability of SQL Server in the context of Service Level Agreements by Tobiasz Janusz Koprowski

PART 3 DATABASE DEVELOPMENT Edited by Paul Nielsen

19. T-SQL: bad habits to kick by Aaron Bertrand
20. Death by UDF by Kevin Boles
21. Using regular expressions in SSMS by John Paul Cook
22. SQL Server Denali: what's coming next in T-SQL by Sergio Govoni
23. Creating your own data type by Hugo Kornelis
24. Extracting data with regular expressions by Matija Lah