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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.
About this Book
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.
What's Inside

  • 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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Table of Contents

    PART 1 ARCHITECTUREEdited 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
  7. PART 2 DATABASE ADMINISTRATION Edited by Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp
  8. Increasing availability through testing by Allan Hirt
  9. Page restores by Gail Shaw
  10. Capacity planning by Greg Larsen
  11. Discovering your servers with PowerShell and SMO by Joe Webb
  12. Will the real Mr. Smith please stand up? by John Magnabosco
  13. Build your own SQL Server 2008 performance dashboard by Pawl Potasinski
  14. SQL Server cost recovery by Peter Ward
  15. Best practice compliance with Policy-Based Management by Rod Colledge
  16. Using SQL Server Management Studio to the fullest by Rodney Landrum
  17. Multiserver management and Utility Explorer - best tools for the DBA by Satya Shyam K. Jayanty
  18. Top 10 SQL Server admin student misconceptions by Tibor Karaszi
  19. High availability of SQL Server in the context of Service Level Agreements by Tobiasz Janusz Koprowski
  20. PART 3 DATABASE DEVELOPMENT Edited by Paul Nielsen
  21. T-SQL: bad habits to kick by Aaron Bertrand
  22. Death by UDF by Kevin Boles
  23. Using regular expressions in SSMS by John Paul Cook
  24. SQL Server Denali: what's coming next in T-SQL by Sergio Govoni
  25. Creating your own data type by Hugo Kornelis
  26. Extracting data with regular expressions by Matija Lah
  27. Relational division by Peter Larsson
  28. SQL FILESTREAM: to BLOB or not to BLOB by Ben Miller
  29. Writing unit tests for Transact-SQL by Luciano Moreira
  30. Getting asynchronous with Service Broker by Mladen Prajdic
  31. Effective use of HierarchyId by Denis Reznik
  32. Let Service Broker help you scale your application by Allen White
  33. PART 4 PERFORMANCE TUNING AND OPTIMIZATION Edited by Brad M. McGehee
  34. Hardware 201: selecting and sizing database server hardware by Glenn Berry
  35. Parameter sniffing: your best friend...except when it isn't by Grant Fritchey
  36. Investigating the plan cache by Jason Strate
  37. What are you waiting for? An introduction to waits and queues by Robert Pearl
  38. You see sets, and I see loops by Linchi Shea
  39. Performance-tuning the transaction log for OLTP workloads by Brad M. McGehee
  40. Strategies for unraveling tangled code by Jennifer McCown
  41. Using PAL to analyze SQL Server performance by Tim Chapman
  42. Tuning JDBC for SQL Server by Jungsun Kim
  43. PART 5 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Edited by Greg Low
  44. Creating a formal Reporting Services report part library by Jessica M. Moss
  45. Improving report layout and visualization by Greg Low
  46. Developing sharable managed code expressions in SSRS by William Vaughn
  47. Designing reports with custom MDX queries by Paul Turley
  48. Building a scale-out Reporting Services farm by Edwin Sarmiento
  49. Creating SSRS reports from SSAS by Robert Cain
  50. Optimizing SSIS for dimensional data loads by Michael Coles
  51. SSIS configurations management by Andy Leonard
  52. Exploring different types of enumerators in the SSIS Foreach Loop container by Abolfazl Radgoudarzi and Shahriar Nikkhah
  53. Late-arriving dimensions in SSIS by John Welch
  54. Why automate tasks with SSIS? by Ted Krueger
  55. Extending SSIS using the Script component by Tim Mitchell
  56. ETL design checklist by Rafael Salas
  57. Autogenerating SSAS cubes by Johan Ahlen
  58. Scripting SSAS databases - AMO and PowerShell, Better Together by Darren Gosbell
  59. Managing context in MDX by Boyan Penev
  60. Using time intelligence functions in PowerPivot by Thiago Zavaschi
  61. Easy BI with Silverlight PivotViewer by Gogula Aryalingam
  62. Excel as a BI frontend tool by Pedro Perfeito
  63. Real-time BI with StreamInsight by Allan Mitchell
  64. BI solution development design considerations by Siddharth Mehta


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781617290473
  • Publisher: Manning Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Manning Publications
  • Depth: 38
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 688
  • Series Title: English
  • Volume: 2
  • Width: 185 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1617290475
  • Publisher Date: 24 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: PAP/PSC
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 1135 gr


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