Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Dba Practices and Procedures
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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.
