Chapter 6. Database Administration Essentials

Core database administration involves creating, manipulating, and supporting databases. In Microsoft SQL Server 2012, a database is a collection of data and the objects that represent and interact with that data. Tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, and constraints are typical database objects.

A single database server instance can have up to 32,767 databases, and each database can have more than 2 billion objects. These are theoretical limits, of course, but they demonstrate that SQL Server can handle just about any ...

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