Data, data everywhere…take control of your database and learn to manipulate it with the tried-and-true Structured Query Language (SQL) in Oracle Database 11g. Whether you're an IT pro who wants to add Oracle DBA and SQL querying to your tool belt, a DBA in another technology who wants to dive into Oracle, or a newcomer to relational databases who yearns to learn SQL, this series will give you what you need to reach your goal.

Written by the technical director for SQL Server Magazine, this expert guide shows you how to implement clustering and database mirroring in SQL Server 2008. Learn proven techniques for ensuring zero database loss, avoiding system downtime, and providing instant data backups. Filled with detailed instructions, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 High Availability with Clustering & Database Mirroring takes you from planning to management of a robust high availability solution.

In his new book, Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans, Brad McGehee takes you on a comprehensive tour of two SQL Server tools designed to help DBAs ensure that a "required minimum" level of maintenance takes place on their SQL Server instances: the Maintenance Plan Wizard and the Maintenance Plan Designer.

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues—the book helps you deliver the most value for your company’s investment in Microsoft’s flagship database system

Oracle SQL Tuning with SQLTXPLAIN is a practical guide to SQL tuning the way Oracle's own experts do it, using a freely downloadable tool called SQLTXPLAIN. Using this simple tool you'll learn how to tune even the most complex SQL, and you'll learn to do it quickly, without the huge learning curve usually associated with tuning as a whole.

The 2012 Microsoft MCSA Certification track includes Exam 70-461 Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The ability to work with Transact-SQL and understand the specifics of querying Microsoft SQL server is a fundamental skill. This VTC course is intended for SQL Server database administrators, implementers, system engineers, and developers who are preparing to take the 70-461 exam as well as those who are just beginning to learn Transact-SQL. Mark Long is the instructor and will take you through the various tools and concepts needed to help you get ready for the 70-461 exam.

SQL Server database administrators are in extremely high demand all over the world. SQL Server 2012, with its new high availability and cloud-ready features, is poised to be an industry leader, further increasing the demand for DBAs. If there ever was a time to get certified as a SQL Server professional, it's now!

Business data analysis becomes more important as the amount of data involved in the analysis grows. This data is in various database management products, spreadsheets, and documents. A data warehouse collects needed data and organizes the data in a form that solves the complexities and performance issues that line-of-business applications present.

The SQL Toolbelt allows developers and DBAs to gain access to our essential SQL Server tools. This means that when you are working with SQL Server databases, you can finally have the most powerful set of tools right there to hand, when you need them.

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Analyze tabular data using the BI Semantic Model (BISM) in Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Analysis Services—and discover a simpler method for creating corporate-level BI solutions. Led by three BI experts, you’ll learn how to build, deploy, and query a BISM tabular model with step-by-step guides, examples, and best practices. This hands-on book shows you how the tabular model’s in-memory database enables you to perform rapid analytics—whether you’re a professional BI developer new to Analysis Services or familiar with its multidimensional model.

Learn how to use the advanced features of Extended Events for more in-depth troubleshooting on SQL Server, either through Transact-SQL or the Extended Events UIs, applicable for developers and DBAs who have some Extended Events and troubleshooting experience, for SQL Server 2008 onwards. This course builds on the SQL Server. Introduction to Extended Events course and delves deeper into the Extended Events system to show you more advanced features, options, targets, and scenarios. The course starts by showing how to develop more powerful event sessions and also set the various event session options to control memory management, event dispatching and retention, and how to track linked events. It then presents the advanced event targets, along with the potential problems you may encounter when using them, and the advanced features of the SQL Server 2012 Extended Events UI in Management Studio, and how to leverage Extended Events using both the .NET API and PowerShell. The course ends by presenting some complex troubleshooting scenarios and shows how they can be investigated using Extended Events.

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database, it is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network (including the Internet). There are at least a dozen different editions of Microsoft SQL Server aimed at different audiences and for different workloads (ranging from small applications that store and retrieve data on the same computer, to millions of users and computers that access huge amounts of data from the Internet at the same time). Its primary query languages are T-SQL and ANSI SQL.

SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming /by Bill Karwin. Bill Karwin has helped thousands of people write better SQL and build stronger relational databases. Now hes sharing his collection of antipatterns the most common errors he is identified in those thousands of requests for help.

The Art of SQL /by Stephane Faroult, Peter Robson. For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data. Database performance has become a major headache, and most IT departments believe that developers should provide simple SQL code to solve immediate problems and let DBAs tune any bad SQL later.

SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Service Pack 1 will provide Mission Critical confidence with greater uptime, blazing-fast performance and enhanced security features for mission critical workloads; Breakthrough Insight with managed self-service data exploration and stunning interactive data Visualizationss capabilities; Cloud on your own Termsby enabling the creation and extension of solutions across on-premises and public cloud. Business Intelligence for Premium Self-Service and Corporate Business Intelligence