I got a copy of this book back in September of 2009 because I wanted to know more about the hardware configuration of production database servers. Specifically, I wanted to know about best practices and recommendations in the areas of storage, memory and CPU. While at the store, I read chapter 2 “Storage and System Sizing” which covers from what SATA means to areas such as RAID, SAN, solid state drives, and best practice considerations. I purchased this book just for the content in chapter 2 and had zero expectations for the rest.
After reading the remainder of the book, I commend Rod College and the team behind this volume for their fantastic job. The material is accurate, current and invaluable to DBAs at any level. You’ll get a wealth of information from new features found in MS SQL 2008 to concepts you should already know but you are not familiar with in MS SQL 2008.
