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Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Dba Practices and Procedures
Database Administration, Second Edition , is the definitive, technology-independent guide to the modern discipline of database administration. Packed with best practices and proven solutions for any database platform or environment, this text fully reflects the field’s latest realities and challenges. Drawing on more than thirty years of database experience, Mullins focuses on problems that today’s DBAs actually face, and skills and knowledge they simply must have. Mullins presents realistic, thorough, and up-to-date coverage of every DBA task, including creating database environments, data modeling, normalization, design, performance, data integrity, compliance, governance, security, backup/recovery, disaster planning, data and storage management, data movement/distribution, data warehousing, connectivity, metadata, tools, and more. This edition adds new coverage of “Big Data,” database appliances, cloud computing, and NoSQL. Mullins includes an entirely new chapter on the DBA’s role in regulatory compliance, with substantial new material on data breaches, auditing, encryption, retention, and metadata management. You’ll also find an all-new glossary, plus up-to-the-minute DBA rules of thumb.
736 pages, Paperback
First published June 14, 2002
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December 16, 2019
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July 5, 2013
This book is a guide to the discipline of modern database administration and gives detailed instructions and requirements of database administration. It is an excellent book for learning database administration activities, processes and procedures. All stages from creating a database to managing and maintaining the database are detailed. This book is useful for novice DBAs, database professionals and system administrators.
The author gives real-time solutions and examples from database administration experience and explains how to successfully deal with the problems and issues of managing and maintaining databases in software projects.
This book consists of 24 chapters, each detailing a specific topic, such as roles and responsibilities of database administrator; database design; database change management; performance management systems; database and application performances; database security, and rules of thumb for databases such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and Sybase. This book also gives a comprehensive sequential overview of a DBA job.
The appendix section provides an extremely useful list of DBMS vendors, DBA tool vendors, DBA web resources, and sample DBA job postings.
Reviewed by Sreerekha Bakaraju MBCS, Software Professional
The author gives real-time solutions and examples from database administration experience and explains how to successfully deal with the problems and issues of managing and maintaining databases in software projects.
This book consists of 24 chapters, each detailing a specific topic, such as roles and responsibilities of database administrator; database design; database change management; performance management systems; database and application performances; database security, and rules of thumb for databases such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and Sybase. This book also gives a comprehensive sequential overview of a DBA job.
The appendix section provides an extremely useful list of DBMS vendors, DBA tool vendors, DBA web resources, and sample DBA job postings.
Reviewed by Sreerekha Bakaraju MBCS, Software Professional
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews