Pro SQL Server 2012 practices

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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 Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practices Delivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experience Focuses upon performance, scalability, reliability Helps achieve the predictability needed to be in control at all times.  Read more... Abstract: 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.  Read more... Content: Be Your Developer's Best Friend / Jesper Johansen -- Getting It Right: Designing the Database for Performance / Louis Davidson -- Hidden Performance Gotchas / Gail Shaw -- Dynamic Management Views / Kellyn Pot'vin -- From SQL Trace to Extended Events / Mladen Prajdić -- The Utility Database / Chris Shaw -- Indexing Outside the Bubble / Jason Strate -- Release Management / TJay Belt -- Compliance and Auditing / Jonathan Gardner -- Automating Administration / Jes Borland -- The Fluid Dynamics of SQL Server Data Movement / Wendy Pastrick -- Windows Azure SQL Database for DBAs / Herve Roggero -- I/O: The Untold Story / Jeremy Lowell -- Page and Row Compression / Bradley Ball -- Selecting and Sizing the Server / Glenn Berry -- Backups and Restores Using Availability Groups / Grant Fritchey -- Big Data for the SQL Server DBA / Carlos Bossy -- Tuning for Peak Load / Ben DeBow.