Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Administrator's companion Edward Whalen et al. 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 Edward Whalen is an expert in database performance, administration, and backup recovery solutions. He is president of Performance Tuning, where senior consultant. Marcilina Garcia specializes in performance benchmarks, database design, and configuration. Burzin Patel is a Microsoft program manager focusing on SQL Server application integration and database management. Stacia Misner, founder of Data Inspirations, delivers business intelligence consulting and education services. Victor Isakov, MCTS, MCITP, is a certified trainer, author, and expert on SQL Server 2005.