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With 30-40% new and updated coverage, this is the industry’s most complete and useful guide to SQL Server 2012. You’ll find everything here: start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s core database server and management capabilities, plus complete introductions to integration, reporting, analysis, development, optimization, security, and much more.
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Four expert SQL Server administrators, developers, and consultants have packed this book with real-world information, tips, guidelines, and samples drawn from their own extensive experience creating and managing complex database solutions with the latest versions of SQL Server. Writing for intermediate-to-advanced-level SQL Server professionals, they focus on the product’s most complex and powerful capabilities, and its newest tools and features. For example, you’ll find 4 new chapters covering:

• SQL Server 2012’s new Always-On feature
• SQL Azure cloud solutions
• Master Data Services (MDS) and Data Quality Services (DQS)
• The Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance

SQL Server 2012 Unleashed contains updated SQL code examples, sample databases, and application code to help you take full advantage of these and other new features and capabilities. This comprehensive guide has also been reorganized for easier access, with complete sections on both high availability and security. No other guide offers as much expert guidance on efficiently implementing administering, securing, optimizing, supporting, and troubleshooting SQL Server 2012, and making it work effectively for your organization.