Databases

SQL Server is all about databases, and EM is all about managing them. Using EM, it is incredibly easy to create and manage your databases. Creating a database is, if anything, too simple in EM. For example, administrators agonize for weeks over the creation of an Oracle database, carefully planning log and data file placement and setting recovery and performance options. Then they fire up EM, create a database accepting all the defaults, and complain that SQL Server is slower than Oracle. Microsoft has provided defaults—such as the path to data and log files—to simplify database creation, but in most cases, the defaults are not the best option. Before creating a database with EM, read Chapters 11 and 39, “Database Design and Performance,” ...

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