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About Donabel Santos
Donabel loves working with data, and making sense of data.
Donabel works mostly with Microsoft SQL Server (for database solutions) and Power BI and Tableau (for analytics and visualization). She is also a PowerShell enthusiast, using PowerShell at every opportunity to integrate, automate, streamline tasks. She is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a Tableau Certified Professional.
Donabel authored SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell V5, SQL Server 2012 with PowerShell V3 and PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials. She is also a contributing author to PowerShell Deep Dives.
She blogs at sqlbelle.com and can be found on twitter as @sqlbelle.
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About This Book
- Create scripts using PowerShell to manage and monitor server administration and application deployment
- Automate creation of SQL Database objects through PowerShell with the help of SQL Server module (SQLPS) and SQL Server snapins
- A fast paced guide, packed with hands-on examples on profiling and configuring SQL Server
Who This Book Is For
This book is written for SQL Server administrators and developers who want to leverage PowerShell to work with SQL Server. Some background with scripting will be helpful but not necessary.
What You Will Learn
- Create scripts using PowerShell to manage and monitor server administration and application deployment
- Automate the creation of SQL Database objects through PowerShell with the help of the SQL Server module (SQLPS) and SQL Server snap-ins
- Use PowerShell to work with SQL Server specific providers and cmdlets
- Identify and manage SQL Server services, instances, settings, and confi gurations
- Profile your SQL Server instances and export current configurations to a file
- Monitor SQL Server jobs and alerts
- Manage logins, database users, and instance security and permissions
- Invoke T-SQL queries from PowerShell and export results
- Accomplish tasks from your DBA daily/weekly/monthly/yearly checklists with PowerShell
In Detail
PowerShell for SQL Server Essentials helps us to manage and monitor server administration and application deployment. Use PowerShell along with SQL Server to perform common DBA tasks.
Starting with a basic introduction to PowerShell, the initial chapters will provide the SQL Server professional PowerShell fundamentals, covering topics such as PowerShell notations and syntax, cmdlets, pipeline, and getting help. Succeeding chapters build upon these fundamentals, and illustrate how to administer and automate SQL Server. Tasks covered throughout include profiling the SQL Server instance, performing backup and restores, invoking T-SQL scripts using PowerShell, and monitoring jobs, security, and permissions.
Packed with practical examples and numerous ready-to-use snippets, this book gets you to an intermediate level in using PowerShell for SQL Server.
Create powerful, effective visualizations to help analyze your data with Tableau 10 by your side
About This Book
- Cook your favorite Tableau 10 business intelligence recipe with the help of this easy-to-follow book
- Build beautiful, interactive dashboards and visualizations in Tableau 10 that help you make informed decisions
- This rich collection of independent recipes cover everything needed to become an advanced Tableau user and get an edge over other Tableau users
Who This Book Is For
This book is targeted to business, data, and analytics professionals who want to build rich interactive visualizations using Tableau. Familiarity with previous versions of Tableau would be helpful, but is not necessary.
What You Will Learn
- Become familiar with the Tableau interface
- Build basic to more advanced charts with step-by-step recipes
- Use filters, calculated fields, parameters, and actions to add interactivity to charts and dashboards
- Prepare and transform data for analysis using Tableau's built-in tools and functions
- Create effective and compelling dashboards and story points
- Leverage Tableau's mapping capabilities to visualize location and shape data
- Integrate analytics and forecasting to enhance data analysis
- Get to know tips and tricks to work more quickly and effectively in Tableau
- Increase your confidence and competence in creating rich, interactive visualizations in Tableau
In Detail
Tableau is a software tool that can speed up data analysis through its rich visualization capabilities, and help uncover insights for better and smarter decision making. This book is for the business, technology, data and analytics professionals who use and analyze data and data-driven approaches to support business operations and strategic initiatives in their organizations.
This book provides easy-to-follow recipes to get the reader up and running with Tableau 10, and covers basic to advanced use cases and scenarios. The book starts with building basic charts in Tableau and moves on to building more complex charts by incorporating different Tableau features and interactivity components. There is an entire chapter dedicated to dashboard techniques and best practices. A number of recipes specifically for geospatial visualization, analytics, and data preparation are also covered.
By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence and competence to analyze and communicate data and insights more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling interactive charts, dashboards, and stories in Tableau.
Style and approach
This book is a collection of independent recipes that cover a wide range of options for data visualization on offer with Tableau. With the help of the recipes in this book, you can explore Tableau and pick the business intelligence solution that's best suited for your needs.
Over 150 real-world recipes to simplify database management, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance your productivity
About This Book
- This book helps you build a strong foundation to get you comfortable using PowerShell with SQL Server, empowering you to create more complex scripts for your day-to-day job
- The book provides numerous guidelines, tips, and explanations on how and when to use PowerShell cmdlets, WMI, SMO, .NET classes, or other components
- It offers easy-to-follow, practical recipes to help you get the most out of SQL Server and PowerShell
Who This Book Is For
If you are a SQL Server database professional (DBA, developer, or BI developer) who wants to use PowerShell to automate, integrate, and simplify database tasks, this books is for you. Prior knowledge of scripting would be helpful, but it is not necessary.
What You Will Learn
- Explore database objects and execute queries on multiple servers
- Manage and monitor the running of SQL Server services and accounts
- Back up and restore databases
- Create an inventory of database properties and server configuration settings
- Maintain permissions and security for users
- Work with CLR assemblies, XML, and BLOB objects in SQL
- Manage and deploy SSIS packages and SSRS reports
In Detail
PowerShell can be leveraged when automating and streamlining SQL Server tasks. PowerShell comes with a rich set of cmdlets, and integrates tightly with the .NET framework. Its scripting capabilities are robust and flexible, allowing you to simplify automation and integration across different Microsoft applications and components.
The book starts with an introduction to the new features in SQL Server 2014 and PowerShell v5 and the installation of SQL Server. You will learn about basic SQL Server administration tasks and then get to know about some security-related topics such as the authentication mode and assigning permissions. Moving on, you will explore different methods to back up and restore your databases and perform advanced administration tasks such as working with Policies, Filetables, and SQL audits. The next part of the book covers more advanced HADR tasks such as log shipping and data mirroring, and then shows you how to develop your server to work with BLOB, XML, and JSON.
Following on from that, you will learn about SQL Server's BI stack, which includes SSRS reports, the SSIS package, and the SSAS cmdlet and database. Snippets not specific to SQL Server will help you perform tasks quickly on SQL servers. Towards the end of the book, you will find some useful information, which includes a PowerShell tutorial for novice users, some commonly-used PowerShell and SQL Server syntax, and a few online resources. Finally, you will create your own SQL Server Sandbox VMs. All these concepts will help you to efficiently manage your administration tasks.
Style and approach
SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell v5 Cookbook is an example-focused book that provides step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish specific SQL Server tasks using PowerShell. Each recipe is followed by an analysis of the steps or design decisions taken and additional information about the task at hand. Working scripts are provided for all examples so that you can dive in right away.
You can read this book sequentially by chapter or you can pick and choose which topics you need right away.