Practical Maintenance Plans in SQL Server 
by Bradley Beard
This book is a complete guide to setting up and maintaining maintenance plans for SQL Server Database Administrators. Maintenance plans too often consist of a backup task and that's it, but there is so much more that can and must be done to ensure the integrity of your most important company resource - the data you are tasked to manage and safeguard. This book walks even the newest of users through cre...
Price: $37.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
Beginning SQL Queries, 2nd Edition
by Clare Churcher
Get started on mastering the one language binding the entire database industry. That language is SQL, and how it works is must-have knowledge for anyone involved with relational databases, and surprisingly also for anyone involved with NoSQL databases. SQL is universally used in querying and reporting on large data sets in order to generate knowledge to drive business decisions.Good knowledge of SQL is cruc...
Price: $23.95 | 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
by Thomas Nield
Businesses are gathering data today at exponential rates and yet few people know how to access it meaningfully. If you're a business or IT professional, this short hands-on guide teaches you how to pull and transform data with SQL in significant ways. You will quickly master the fundamentals of SQL and learn how to create your own databases.Author Thomas Nield provides exercises throughout the book to ...
Price: $29.61 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016
by Stacia Varga, Denny Cherry, Joseph D'Antoni
Build your database management knowledge with the technical open book, Introducing SQL Server 2016. Get an overview of the SQL Server 2016 features - from in-memory performance and enhanced security to end-to-end mobile business intelligence and advanced analytics.Learn about faster queries, improved security, higher availability, and state-of-the-art database engines; Broaden your data access, get deeper i...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
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 - The Definitive Guide to Graph Databases
by Michael Hungers, Ryan Boyd, William Lyon
For the right use case, relational databases are powerful tools.But today's users are asking for more than an RDBMS can handle. More features, more data, more speed and - most importantly - more connections.This ebook introduces you - the RDBMS developer - to a new technology that leverages data connections like never before: the graph database.This definitive guide covers: Relational vs. graph data mo...
Publisher: Self-publishing | Release: 2016
by Scott Shaw, Andreas Francois Vermeulen, Ankur Gupta, David Kjerrumgaard
Dive into the world of SQL on Hadoop and get the most out of your Hive data warehouses. This book is your go-to resource for using Hive: authors Scott Shaw, Ankur Gupta, David Kjerrumgaard, and Andreas Francois Vermeulen take you through learning HiveQL, the SQL-like language specific to Hive, to analyze, export, and massage the data stored across your Hadoop environment. From deploying Hive on your hardwar...
Price: $35.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
by Mohammed Guller
This book is a step-by-step guide for learning how to use Spark for different types of big-data analytics projects, including batch, interactive, graph, and stream data analysis as well as machine learning. It covers Spark core and its add-on libraries, including Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, GraphX, MLlib, and Spark ML.Big Data Analytics with Spark shows you how to use Spark and leverage its easy-to-use feat...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016
Scalable Big Data Architecture
by Bahaaldine Azarmi
This book highlights the different types of data architecture and illustrates the many possibilities hidden behind the term "Big Data", from the usage of No-SQL databases to the deployment of stream analytics architecture, machine learning, and governance.Scalable Big Data Architecture covers real-world, concrete industry use cases that leverage complex distributed applications , which inv...
Price: $23.50 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2016