* The only book of its kind, SQL Server Administration with Perl has
appeal for both Windows programmers and open source aficionados.
* Practical, real-world tested scripts are taken from actual
production environments.
* SQL Server Administration with Perl provides over 150 ready-to-use
and easy-to-customize Perl scripts for administrating SQL Servers.
* Scripts include tracking configurations and schema changes,
monitoring servers, analyzing log files, auditing server environments
for breach of best practice standards, validating data migration,
performing impact analysis and creating transaction summaries,
managing code releases, controlling SQL Server functional and
Has appeal for both Windows programmers and open source aficionados Practical, real-world tested scripts are taken from actual production environments Provides over 150 ready-to-use and easy-to-customize Perl scripts for administrating SQL Servers
Dave Shea
Microsoft SQL Server SQL SQL Server 2000 Scala T-SQL Transact-SQL regular expressions
From the reviews:
"This is aimed at the DBA who is already running an efficient SQL server, but who wants to be forearmed against any future problems. … The aim of the book is to provide a toolkit of around 150 Perl scripts that can then be adapted and applied to a wide variety of SQL server problems … . There are also appendices that list useful resources … . The book as a whole could be quite useful … ." (Linux Magazine, March, 2004)
"The book demonstrates the capabilities of Perl by presenting individual scenarios, each designed to highlight a particular useful feature and how it might be applied to common SQL Server administration tasks. … Overall, this is a well-rounded book providing a good balance of SQL Server administration task specific information, backed up with some useful Perl-specific text." (Adrian Hibbert, Computer Bulletin, March, 2004)