Your one-volume guide to planning deployment administration and support.

Get your mission-critical databases up and running quickly with this essential single-volume guide. This comprehensive administrator's reference details features and capabilities of SQL Server 2005 including how to implement business intelligence applications. It delivers the easy-to-follow procedures practical workarounds and key troubleshooting tactics you need for on-the-job-results.

Discover how to:

•Perform an installation or upgrade and configure it on the network
•Plan and configure the I/O subsystem and model system capacity
•Create and maintain databases tables views and indexes
•Administer transactions deadlocks and isolation levels
•Manage users with logins user IDs schemas permissions and roles
•Implement failover clustering log shipping and database mirroring for high availability
•Manage and tune snapshot transactional and merge replication
•Administer SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services
•Monitor troubleshoot and fine-tune performance