Analytics Optimization with Columnstore Indexes in Microsoft SQL Server
by Edward Pollack
Meet the challenge of storing and accessing analytic data in SQL Server in a fast and performant manner. This book illustrates how columnstore indexes can provide an ideal solution for storing analytic data that leads to faster performing analytic queries and the ability to ask and answer business intelligence questions with alacrity. The book provides a complete walk through of columnstore indexing that en...
Price: $40.69 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
Pro Serverless Data Handling with Microsoft Azure 
by Benjamin Kettner, Frank Geisler
Design and build architectures on the Microsoft Azure platform specifically for data-driven and ETL applications. Modern cloud architectures rely on serverless components more than ever, and this book helps you identify those components of data-driven or ETL applications that can be tackled using the technologies available on the Azure platform. The book shows you which Azure components are best suited to f...
Price: $54.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
Beginning Ansible Concepts and Application
by Shaun R Smith, Peter Membrey
Learn the concepts and develop the skills to be a true Ansible artist and use it inside and outside the box. This book applies key concepts immediately while building up your Ansible skills layer by layer through easy to grasp examples and engaging projects. You'll also think about security, why testing is important, and how to use version control safely.As a beginner to Ansible, you'll be guided ...
Price: $37.83 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
SQL Server 2022 Query Performance Tuning, 6th Edition
by Grant Fritchey
Troubleshoot slow-performing queries and make them run faster. Database administrators and SQL developers are constantly under pressure to provide more speed. This new edition has been redesigned and rewritten from scratch based on the last 15 years of learning, knowledge, and experience accumulated by the author. The book Includes expanded information on using extended events, automatic execution plan corr...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
Serverless Architectures on AWS, 2nd Edition
by Peter Sbarski, Yan Cui, Ajay Nair
Serverless Architectures on AWS, 2nd Edition teaches you how to design serverless systems. You'll discover the principles behind serverless architectures, and explore real-world case studies where companies used serverless architectures for their products. You won't just master the technical essentials - the book contains extensive coverage of balancing tradeoffs and making essential technical dec...
Price: $45.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2022
Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches
by Chrissy LeMaire, Rob Sewell, Jess Pomfret, Claudio Silva
Written by a group of expert authors including dbatools creator Chrissy LeMaire, Learn dbatools in a Month of Lunches teaches you techniques that will make you more effective - and efficient - than you ever thought possible. In twenty-eight lunchbreak lessons, you'll learn the most important use cases of dbatools and the favorite functions of its core developers. Stabilize and standardize your SQL serv...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2022
Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros
by Bill Jelen, Tracy Syrstad
Use this guide to automate virtually any routine Excel task: save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks. Make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you wont find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad help you instantly visualize information to make it actionable; capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere;...
Price: $34.39 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2022
Foundations of Scalable Systems
by Ian Gorton
In many systems, scalability becomes the primary driver as the user base grows. Attractive features and high utility breed success, which brings more requests to handle and more data to manage. But organizations reach a tipping point when design decisions that made sense under light loads suddenly become technical debt. This practical book covers design approaches and technologies that make it possible to s...
Price: $44.93 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2022
Ansible: Up and Running, 3rd Edition
by Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, Rene Moser
Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: It's minimal in nature. You don't need to install agents on your nodes. And there's an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll quickly learn how to be productive with Ansible whether you're a developer deploying code or a system administrator looking for a better autom...
Price: $41.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2022
FREE EBOOK - NGINX Cookbook, 2nd Edition
by Derek DeJonghe
NGINX is one of the most widely used web servers available today, in part because of itscapabilities as a load balancer and reverse proxy server for HTTP and other network protocols. This revised cookbook provides easy-to-follow examples of real-world problems in application delivery. Practical recipes help you set up and use either the open source or commercial offering to solve problems in various use cas...
Price: $46.09 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2022