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Training Kit (Exam 70-462): Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases
EXAM PREP GUIDE
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by Exam 70-462—and on the job—with this official Microsoft study guide. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises.
Maximize your performance on the exam ...more
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by Exam 70-462—and on the job—with this official Microsoft study guide. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. Then, reinforce and apply what you’ve learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises.
Maximize your performance on the exam ...more
Paperback, 624 pages
Published
July 16th 2012
by Microsoft Press
(first published June 27th 2012)
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This book covers most of the content necessary to administer SQL Server 2012 databases.
It reads just like a well-refined version of Books Online, and while some may consider that a bad thing, the book is straight without wasting any time. I found the practice exercises particularly helpful in understanding the major concepts (that is, of course, if you manage to set up the practice environment with 6 virtual machines), and that's the one thing that gives this book an advantage over Books Online. ...more
It reads just like a well-refined version of Books Online, and while some may consider that a bad thing, the book is straight without wasting any time. I found the practice exercises particularly helpful in understanding the major concepts (that is, of course, if you manage to set up the practice environment with 6 virtual machines), and that's the one thing that gives this book an advantage over Books Online. ...more

I thought I was harsh when reviewing the 70-461 Training Kit, but compared to this piece of garbage, 70-461 was the Tome of Enlightenment itself. The job of a training kit of this kind is three-fold: to help you review the material you already know, to refresh the material you know but don't use much, and to explain the material you neither use nor are familiar with. This book fails spectacularly on all three accounts. It basically is a chain of chapters containing nothing but instructions on wh
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I am preparing for exam 70-458 which covers not only everything of exam 70-463 but also the second part of this book.
If you want to know about high availability and alwayson groups, security, all kind of indexing and performance and backup and restore, this book has good practical exercises.
I hope this will get me through the exam and if not, I'll probably reread it just as long till I get it.
If you want to know about high availability and alwayson groups, security, all kind of indexing and performance and backup and restore, this book has good practical exercises.
I hope this will get me through the exam and if not, I'll probably reread it just as long till I get it.

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