Sql Server Wmi
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Leveraging WMI Scripting $91.95 Leveraging WMI Scripting is the second in a series of two books dedicated to WMI. Understanding WMI Scripting (ISBN 1-55558-266-4), Lissoir’s first book, explained to Windows Administrators the various WMI scripting techniques and manageability capabilities of this new Windows Server 2003 platform. Illustrated with hundreds of scripts and detailed tables, the book explained the underlying technology and how WMI can be put to work. Lissoir focused not only on WMI programming aspects for developers but on how administrators can use what is available in Windows for their admin work. If you’ve had significant WMI experience, or have read Lissoir’s first book, you are ready to apply your WMI knowledge to any technology that interfaces with WMI. Leveraging WMI Scripting continues the presentation of WMI begun in Understanding WMI Scripting. In this new volume, we dive deeper into WMI to understand the manageable entities of the Windows world. Lissoir offers a structured description of the most important WMI providers available from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 (including Windows 2000 and Windows XP). This covers the WMI management of the Windows Registry, Active Directory, SNMP, the Resultant Set Of Policies (RSOP), and the Volume Shadow Service to name a few. This discussion leverages the information on building real-world scripted management solutions presented in Lissoir’s first book. Like the first volume, Leveraging WMI Scripting is based on an important concept: “learning by practice.” Leveraging WMI Scripting addresses the most advanced topics so that you can exploit the features of various WMI interfaces to manage the components in a real-world environment. WMI is a critical topic under Windows Server 2003, so this book provides real added value to every Windows administrator. Shows you how to extract data from applications, understand what’s really happening on your servers, and get real work done Provides hundreds of usable scripts to use in everyday solutions for network performance and security Offers practical and straightforward advice that any enterprise Windows administrator can learn from |
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Windows Management Instrumentation (Wmi) $47.68 "Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)" tells readers everything they need to know in order to harness the power of WMI to automate vast parts of Windows 2000 workstation and server management. The book starts with the absolute basics, teaching the fundamentals of WMI terminology and the VBScript programming language. By the time readers complete the book, the readers will not only have the ability to use the scripts supplied, but also have a good understanding of both WMI and VBScript. |
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SQL Server Security $49.99 Addresses SQL Server vulnerabilities and provides security solutions. Covers installation, administration, and programming–plus security issues such as authentication, encryption, intrusion detection, and more. Written for IT professionals administering or programming any SQL Server-based application–includes coverage of SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server (Yukon). |
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Mastering SQL Server Profiler $27.93 SQL Server Profiler is one of the most useful of SQL Server’s "built-in" tools, recording data about various SQL Server events. "Mastering SQL Server Profiler" will make it easier for you to learn how to use Profiler, analyze the data it provides, and to take full advantage of its potential for troubleshooting SQL Server problems. All the examples have been optimized to work with both SQL Server 2005 and 2008. |
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Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 $35.99 Anyone who interacts with today’s modern databases needs to know SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard language for generating, manipulating, and retrieving database information. In recent years, the dramatic rise in the popularity of relational databases and multi-user databases has fueled a healthy demand for application developers and others who can write SQL code efficiently and correctly. If you’re new to databases, or need a SQL refresher, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 is an ideal step-by-step introduction to this database query tool, with everything you need for programming SQL using Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005-one of the most powerful and popular database engines used today. Plenty of books explain database theory. This guide lets you apply the theory as you learn SQL. You don’t need prior database knowledge, or even prior computer knowledge. Based on a popular university-level course designed by authors Sikha Saha Bagui and Richard Walsh Earp, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 starts with very simple SQL concepts, and slowly builds into more complex query development. Every topic, concept, and idea comes with examples of code and output, along with exercises to help you gain proficiency in SQL and SQL Server 2005. With this book, you’ll learn: Beginning SQL commands, such as how and where to type an SQL query, and how to create, populate, alter and delete tables How to customize SQL Server 2005′s settings and about SQL Server 2005′s functions About joins, a common database mechanism for combining tables Query development, the use of views and other derived structures, and simple set operations Subqueries, aggregate functions and correlated subqueries, as well as indexes and constraints that can be added to tables in SQL Server 2005 Whether you’re an undergraduate computer science or MIS student, a self-learner who has access to the new Microsoft database, or work for your company’s IT department, Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005 will get you up to speed on SQL in no time. |
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Scripting SQL Management Objects in Windows PowerShell (Wrox Briefs) $6.99 This Wrox Blox shows how to communicate with SQL Server using SQL Management Objects instantiated on-the-fly in Windows PowerShell scripts. Topics include how to create Windows PowerShell scripts that use SQL Management Objects (SMO) to manage and program SQL Server. In addition, you will learn about areas of potential difficulty and see how to avoid them—for example, the use of ‘$’ in instance… |
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Scripting XML and WMI for Microsoft(r) SQL Server 2000: Professional Developer’s Guide $4.06 A quick-start guide to mastering all of SQL Server 2000′s hot new Web development and database programming featuresSQL Server 2000′s new XML features, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and scripting capabilities make it easier than ever for Web developers to create and manage flexible, scalable database applications optimized for the Internet–especially e-commerce applications. This quick… |
Learn How to Analyze Response Time With SQL Tuning
For DBAs, the newest take on application and SQL performance improvement allows them to manage the database with a better understanding of the one thing that can really help improve overall performance: recognizing end user wait time and learning how to fix it. This analysis is also frequently referred to as a wait time analysis and it is useful for helping IT support SQL performance tuning with service level delivery for end users.
Explore some of the benefits of SQL performance tuning.
Rather than watching server health statistics and making guesses about their performance impact, response time methods measure the time taken to complete a desired operation. The best implementations break down the time into discrete and individually measurable steps, and identify exactly which steps in which operations cause application delays. It stands to reason that because the database is solely responsible for responding to users requests that response time is a key indicator of what time of performance tuning should be done.
Differences vs. Conventional Statistics
Health measures and execution ratios are the main focus of normal SQL performance tools. While this has been the traditional way of measuring in the past, the end user experience is left out of the equation and consequently, it is more difficult to pinpoint where the error first occurred. Knowing an operation took place millions of times does not inform whether it was actually the cause of an application delay.
Understanding the difference between Response Time Analysis and Conventional Analysis
- Measure response time for an action to take place, from receipt of request to beginning of response.
- Every SQL query is measured separately so that the response time can be looked at individually. Measuring total response time across the instance does not give useful information.
- The discrete internal steps are identified when the SQL query is processed. Treating the instance as a black-box without seeing where the time is consumed internally does not help problem solving.
See how SQL server tuning can help.
SQL Server Tuning Done Right the First Time
DBAs are able to find the exact location of a problem with response time analysis. This means that preventative action can be taken before wait time affects end-user service levels and further SQL Server tuning complications.
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Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows Administrators $39.99 Get the in-depth guidance you need to take your Windows scripting skills to the next level. Enterprise-level Windows administrators who have experience with Windows scripting will learn advanced VBScript techniques, including Active Directory Service Interfaces (ADSI) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) scripting, security scripting, building hypertext applications for script graphical interfaces, remote scripting, database scripting, and scripting for Group Policy. You will continue to build your skills by creating scripts to work with Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Operations Manager, and Microsoft Virtual Server. Coverage also includes the latest scripting updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Each chapter highlights powerful, ready-to-run, enterprise-level scripts, and the companion CD-ROM includes sample scripts and utilities to help you put your advanced scripting skills to work right away. |
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Hacking Exposed Windows: Microsoft Windows Security Secrets and Solutions, Third Edition $5.79 The latest Windows security attack and defense strategies"Securing Windows begins with reading this book." —James Costello (CISSP) IT Security Specialist, Honeywell Meet the challenges of Windows security with the exclusive Hacking Exposed "attack-countermeasure" approach. Learn how real-world malicious hackers conduct reconnaissance of targets and then exploit common misconfigurations and software flaws on both clients and servers. See leading-edge exploitation techniques demonstrated, and learn how the latest countermeasures in Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003/2008 can mitigate these attacks. Get practical advice based on the authors' and contributors' many years as security professionals hired to break into the world's largest IT infrastructures. Dramatically improve the security of Microsoft technology deployments of all sizes when you learn to: Establish business relevance and context for security by highlighting real-world risksTake a tour of the Windows security architecture from the hacker's perspective, exposing old and new vulnerabilities that can easily be avoidedUnderstand how hackers use reconnaissance techniques such as footprinting, scanning, banner grabbing, DNS queries, and Google searches to locate vulnerable Windows systems Learn how information is extracted anonymously from Windows using simple NetBIOS, SMB, MSRPC, SNMP, and Active Directory enumeration techniquesPrevent the latest remote network exploits such as password grinding via WMI and Terminal Server, passive Kerberos logon sniffing, rogue server/man-in-the-middle attacks, and cracking vulnerable servicesSee up close how professional hackers reverse engineer and develop new Windows exploitsIdentify and eliminate rootkits, malware, and stealth softwareFortify SQL Server against external and insider attacksHarden your clients and users against the latest e-mail phishing, spyware, |