To all the children of Operation Smile
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
MVP authors and their chapters
Preface
Acknowledgments
About Operation Smile
About this book
About the Editors
About SQL Server MVPs
1. Architecture
Chapter 1. Where are my keys?
Chapter 2. “Yes, we are all individuals” A look at uniqueness in the world of SQL
Chapter 3. Architectural growth pains
Chapter 4. Characteristics of a great relational database
Chapter 5. Storage design considerations
Chapter 6. Generalization: the key to a well-designed schema
2. Database administration
Chapter 7. Increasing availability through testing
Chapter 8. Page restores
Chapter 9. Capacity planning
Chapter 10. Discovering your servers with PowerShell and SMO
Chapter 11. Will the real Mr. Smith please stand up?
Chapter 12. Build your own SQL Server 2008 performance dashboard
Chapter 13. SQL Server cost recovery
Chapter 14. Best practice compliance with Policy-Based Management
Chapter 15. Using SQL Server Management Studio to the fullest
Chapter 16. Multiserver management and Utility Explorer—best tools for the DBA
Chapter 17. Top 10 SQL Server admin student misconceptions
Chapter 18. High availability of SQL Server in the context of Service Level Agreements
3. Database development
Chapter 19. T-SQL: bad habits to kick
Chapter 20. Death by UDF
Chapter 21. Using regular expressions in SSMS
Chapter 22. SQL Server Denali: what’s coming next in T-SQL
Chapter 23. Creating your own data type