CHAPTER 12 Data Access

In this chapter, you will learn about:

• Service Broker and event notifications

• Web services and HTTP endpoints

• Bulk imports and exports

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While database administrators don't often get into the heavy programming (that's left to the database developers), DBAs do need to be aware of what's possible when it comes to data access methods. Service Broker and event notifications allow a DBA to do some sophisticated monitoring of a database. In this section we provide an introduction to some data access topics including the tried and true bulk-import ...

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