Exam Ref 70-765 Provisioning SQL Databases 
by Joseph D'Antoni, Scott Klein
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-765 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of provisioning SQL Server databases both on premise and in SQL Azure. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Implement SQL in Azure; Ma...
Price: $5.99 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
Exam Ref 70-761 Querying Data with Transact-SQL
by Itzik Ben-Gan
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-761 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of SQL Server 2016 Transact-SQL data management, queries, and database programming. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Filter, sort,...
Price: $34.25 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
Microsoft Office 365 Administration Inside Out, 2nd Edition
by Darryl Kegg, Aaron Guilmette, Lou Mandich, Ed Fisher
Dive into Microsoft Office 365 Administration - and really put your Office 365 expertise to work. This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds - all you need to plan, implement, and operate Microsoft Office 365 in any environment. In this completely revamped Second Edition, a new author team thoroughly reviews the administration tools and capabilities avai...
Price: $46.99 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Exploring Cloud Computing
by Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig
Cloud Computing is enabling many trends in IT today: microservices, pay-as-you-go pricing, and serverless architectures, to name three. The biggest player in the market's Amazon, who offers the most mature cloud systems through their Amazon Web Services (AWS). Other companies are gaining traction as well: Google invests into their Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft entered the game with Azure.Explori...
Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure
by Carl Rabeler
SQL Server is Microsoft's relational database management system (RDBMS). SQL Server can now be hosted entirely in Microsoft Azure, either in a hosted virtual machine (VM) or as a hosted service. Hosting a virtual machine in Azure is known as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and hosting a service in Azure is known as platform as a service (PaaS). Microsoft's hosted version of SQL Server is known...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Fundamentals of Azure, 2nd Edition
by Michael Collier, Robin Shahan
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform, providing a wide variety of services you can use without purchasing and provisioning your own hardware. Azure enables the rapid development of solutions and provides the resources to accomplish tasks that may not be feasible in an on-premises environment. Azure's compute, storage, network, and application services allow you to focus on build...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
Using Chef with Microsoft Azure
by Stuart Preston
This book is your hands-on guide to infrastructure provisioning and configuration management in the cloud using Chef's open source, cross-platform toolset. With over 10,000 customers joining the Microsoft Azure cloud platform each week and steadily increasing usage, the need for automation approaches has never been greater. This book provides both practical examples and a much needed strategic overview...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
by Wouter de Kort
This book tells you everything you need to know to help your organization implement DevOps on the Microsoft platform. You will learn how to use Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure to implement a complete DevOps process in your company. You will learn about Agile Project Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Technical Debt Management, Automatic Testing and Monitoring, and...
Price: $49.98 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
Migrating Large-Scale Services to the Cloud
by Eric Passmore
This book reveals the technical challenges and successful implementation details of migrating MSN, Microsoft's consumer content portal - a business with 450 million worldwide users - into the Cloud. Following a technique long used in aviation, medicine, and other fields, MSN's Chief Technical Officer, Eric Passmore, describes the set of release, deployment, monitoring, and mitigation checklists us...
Price: $36.25 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
Pro SQL Server Internals, 2nd Edition
by Dmitri Korotkevitch
Improve your ability to develop, manage, and troubleshoot SQL Server solutions by learning how different components work "under the hood", and how they communicate with each other. The detailed knowledge helps in implementing and maintaining high-throughput databases critical to your business and its customers. You'll learn how to identify the root cause of each problem and understand...
Price: $49.36 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016