Americas Headquarters EMEA Headquarters Asia-Pacific Headquarters 100 California Street, 12th Floor San Francisco, California 94111 York House 18 York Road Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 1SF, United Kingdom L7. 313 La Trobe Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia The High Performance SQL Server DBA Managing Multiple Database Platforms for Performance & Availability By Scott Walz, Sr. Director of Product Management at Embarcadero Technologies and Stephen Wynkoop, Microsoft SQL Server MVP and Founder of SSWUG.org July 2010
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Americas Headquarters
EMEA Headquarters
Asia-Pacific Headquarters
100 California Street, 12th Floor San Francisco, California 94111
York House 18 York Road Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 1SF, United Kingdom
L7. 313 La Trobe Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
The High Performance SQL Server DBA
Managing Multiple Database Platforms for Performance & Availability
By Scott Walz, Sr. Director of Product Management at Embarcadero Technologies and Stephen Wynkoop, Microsoft SQL Server MVP and Founder of SSWUG.org
July 2010
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