Happy Halloween! Are you looking for the perfect treat for your SQL Server costume?

Well, if so – I have the treat for you, today Apress releases a new book that provides a cover all book of wisdom on SQL Server.  The book is described as:

Expert SQL Server Practices 2012 Edition is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance—but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues—the book helps you deliver the most value for your company’s investment in Microsoft’s flagship database system

Sounds pretty exciting, huh?  Well, then check out the table of contents…

1. Jesper Johansen. Be Your Developer’s Best Friend
2. Louis Davidson. Getting It Right: Designing for Database Performance
3. Gail Shaw. Hidden Performance Gotchas
4. Kellyn Pot’vin. Dynamic Management Views
5. Mladen Prajdic. From SQL Trace to Extended Events
6. Chris Shaw. The Utility Database
7. Jason Strate. Indexing  Outside the Bubble
8. TJay Belt. Release Management
9. Jonathan Gardner. Compliance and Auditing
10. Jes Borland. Automating Administration
11. Wendy Pastrick. The Fluid Dynamics of SQL Server Data Movement
12. Herve Roggero. Windows Azure Features for DBAs
13. Jeremy Lowell. I/O: The Untold Story
14. Bradley Ball. Page and Row Compression
15. Glenn Berry. Selecting and Sizing the Server
16. Grant Fritchey. Backups and Restores Using Availability Groups
17. Carlos Bossy. Big Data for the SQL Server DBA
18. Ben DeBow. Tuning for Peak Load

You may notice that I wrote chapter 7 which is on indexing.  I had a little experience with indexes in the past year with my last book, Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012.  The one topic I didn’t cover enough in that book though was automating index recommendations with Database Engine Tuning Adviser (DTA).  While a scary thought, it isn’t so much when you realize that the point is to use DTA for the recommendations, not the index creation.  I recommend checking it out (shameless plug).

If my stuff isn’t compelling… then look at the other chapters… they are full of sweetness.

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