Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration by Bria... - 9780470247969

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 AdministrationAuthor(s): Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Ross LoForte, Steven Wort\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Wrox Press\nISBN-13: 9780470247969, 978-0470247969\nSynopsis\nSQL Server 2008 represents a sizable jump forward in scalability, performance, and usability for the DBA, developer, and business intelligence (BI) developer. It is no longer unheard of to have 20-terabyte databases running on a SQL Server. SQL Server administration used to just be the job of a database administrator (DBA), but as SQL Server proliferates throughout smaller companies, many developers have begun to act as administrators as well. Additionally, some of the new features in SQL Server are more developer-centric, and poor configuration of these features can result in poor performance. SQL Server now enables you to manage the policies on hundreds of SQL Servers in your environment as if you were managing .