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 fields latest realities and challenges. Drawing on more than thirty years of database experience Mullins focuses on problems that todays 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 DBAs role in regulatory compliance with substantial new material on data breaches auditing encryption retention and metadata management. Youll also find an all-new glossary plus up-to-the-minute DBA rules of thumb.