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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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Essential SQL on SQL Server 2008 $38.74 This book, written for readers who have little or no previous experience with databases, SQL, or SQL Server, provides a very systematic approach to learning SQL using SQL Server. Each chapter is written in a step-by-step manner and has examples that can be run using SQL Server. Using the sample tables and data provided, the reader of this book will be able to do all the examples to experience hands-on SQL programming in SQL Server. The book also presents a series of exercises at the end of the chapters to help readers gain proficiency with SQL. With this book you will learn beginning SQL commands – how to retrieve and manipulate data using the simple SELECT statement; how to customize SQL Server 2008′s settings and about SQL Server 2008′s functions; how to create, alter, populate and delete tables; about joins, a common database mechanism for combining tables; query development, the use of views and other derived structures; simple set operations; about aggregate functions; how to write subqueries and correlated subqueries; how to create and use indexes and constraints; transaction processing. |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 $27.99 This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition) will prepare database administrators for upcoming changes in SQL Server 2005. Obtain the skills necessary to run SQL Server 2005 from the experts at Microsoft Gold Partner. Get a head-start to understanding the new concepts and features of SQL Server 2005 from the database administrator's perspective, including: SQL Server 2005 Architecture Tool Sets Scalability, Reliability and High Availability Chapter Performance Tuning Replication .NET CLR Integration DTS and Business Intelligence Minimize the surprises in SQL Server 2005 with the help of Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm (SQL Server 2005 Public Beta Edition) . |
SQL Server Optimization: When To Scale
There comes a time in every database production environment when you must decide whether or not to scale hardware systems. There are variables such as time frames and budgets that make this decision very difficult. It is not easy for DBAs to choose whether they would like to scale up or scale out.
Scaling up means to move databases and applications to a larger class of hardware with more powerful processors, more memory, and faster disk drives. Using higher levels of system resource could require you to scale up the production environment to be certain that end users are receiving the best experience.
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Scaling out involves using federated servers where data can be partitioned or replicated across them. For example, CRM or ERP functionalities could be partitioned on different servers and horizontal data could be partitioned across several databases.
Determine What Is Necessary
Prior to making that final decision on scaling up or scaling out, make sure that it is necessary. Adequate SQL Server performance tuning efforts can help you make that decision. Numerous scalability and performance difficulties can be relieved with the proper SQL server optimization efforts. Scaling up or out should not be done until applications and SQL Server databases have been optimized using historical trend and wait-time performance data.
SQL Server optimization can resolve performance bottlenecks like inefficient locking, unprepared SQL statements, poor indexes that lead to increased CPU loads, and memory or disk I/O utilization that are often incorrectly mitigated by scaling up on hardware.
The Question: To Scale Up or Out
Once you’ve optimized applications and databases and are still seeing performance issues, you must decide whether you need to scale up or scale out. The first solution is to scale up. Even though scaling up may require significant expenditures, it is easier and more efficient than scaling out. Scaling up is essentially upgrading slower hardware with new, fast equipment and/or adding additional hardware components to the current configuration.
If scaling up still hasn't solved your performance problems, the next decision to make is to scale out and implement a federated server environment. Decreasing the workload on the individual servers will likely cure any performance issues that may remain.
Scaling out is a great solution for those who simply don't have the budget for new hardware. If you have enough, or nearly enough, server capacity already, expenditures will be greatly reduced. You should certainly do some research and determine if the cost savings is worth the complex nature of utilizing a federated server environment.
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Optimize First, Scale Later
It is imperative to repeat that proper optimization at the database and application levels is the least expensive and most efficient way to enhance performance. Focusing your SQL Server performance tuning there usually eliminates the need for any type of scaling. Be sure to exhaust all optimization options before going through the expense and added complexities of scaling.
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PowerPivot for the Data Analyst: Microsoft Excel 2010 $34.99 ANALYZE HUGE AMOUNTS OF BUSINESS DATA FASTER, MORE EASILY, AND MORE ACCURATELY!Use Microsoft’s free PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 to analyze immense amounts of data from any source, perform state-of-the-art business analysis far more easily, and make better decisions in less time!Simple, step-by-step instructions walk you through installing PowerPivot, importing data, using PivotTables with PowerPivot, using super-powerful DAX functions and measures, reporting to print or SharePoint, and a whole lot more.Whatever your Excel data analysis experience, this book will help you use PowerPivot to get the right answers, right now—without IT’s help!• Import and integrate data from spreadsheets, SQL Server, Access, Oracle, text files, Atom data feeds, and other sources• Analyze multiple tables together, without complicated VLOOKUPs• Format, sort, and filter data in the PowerPivot window• Add calculated columns using new DAX functions• Create powerful reports from PowerPivot data–and format them so executives instantly get your point• Discover PivotTable tricks that work even better in PowerPivot• Control multiple PivotTable elements on one worksheet, with one set of Excel 2010 Slicers• Use DAX Measures to quickly perform tasks that were difficult or impossible with Calculated Fields• Compare today’s sales to yesterday’s–or to sales from the parallel period last fiscal year.• Use Named Sets to prepare asymmetric reports, show actuals for past months and plan for future months.About MrExcel Library: Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will• Dramatically increase your |
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PowerPivot for the Data Analyst: Microsoft Excel 2010 $27.99 ANALYZE HUGE AMOUNTS OF BUSINESS DATA FASTER, MORE EASILY, AND MORE ACCURATELY!Use Microsoft’s free PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 to analyze immense amounts of data from any source, perform state-of-the-art business analysis far more easily, and make better decisions in less time!Simple, step-by-step instructions walk you through installing PowerPivot, importing data, using PivotTables with PowerPivot, using super-powerful DAX functions and measures, reporting to print or SharePoint, and a whole lot more.Whatever your Excel data analysis experience, this book will help you use PowerPivot to get the right answers, right now—without IT’s help!• Import and integrate data from spreadsheets, SQL Server, Access, Oracle, text files, Atom data feeds, and other sources• Analyze multiple tables together, without complicated VLOOKUPs• Format, sort, and filter data in the PowerPivot window• Add calculated columns using new DAX functions• Create powerful reports from PowerPivot data–and format them so executives instantly get your point• Discover PivotTable tricks that work even better in PowerPivot• Control multiple PivotTable elements on one worksheet, with one set of Excel 2010 Slicers• Use DAX Measures to quickly perform tasks that were difficult or impossible with Calculated Fields• Compare today’s sales to yesterday’s–or to sales from the parallel period last fiscal year.• Use Named Sets to prepare asymmetric reports, show actuals for past months and plan for future months.About MrExcel Library: Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will• Dramatically increase your |