Real World SQL Server Administration with Perl

Who This Book Is For

This book isn't an introductory Perl tutorial or a SQL Server administration tutorial. You can find the shelves already crowded with introductory books on both Perl and SQL Server administration in any computer bookstore.

You don't have to be a Perl expert to read this book. However, to get the most out of it, you should be conversant with the essentials of Perl, including its syntax, its data structure elements (scalars, arrays, hashes, and references), and its basic string operations. You also need to know the basics of file Input/Output (I/O), sub-routines, and regular expressions. For your convenience, I've included a short review of the Perl essentials in Appendix B.

In addition, you should be familiar with the basics of SQL Server administration, and you should be comfortable with T-SQL scripting.

This book is for lazy, impatient, and cheap SQL Server DBAs.[1] If you're tired of having to deal with the same boring routines repetitively and want to have the routines automated, this book is for you. In particular, if you always have an urge to streamline multiple existing tools and make them work together automatically, this book is for you.

If instead of patiently waiting for the management approval process to eventually get you the tool you want for an urgent problem and you'd rather create a tool yourself, this book is for you.

You like a feature you see in an expensive tool but don't want to spend money or don't have the money to spend. Instead, you want to quickly write your own tool to get the job done. This book is for you.

This book is also written for SQL Server DBAs who know they have better things to do than waste their time on repetitive chores and who simply can't bring themselves to perform an administrative task more than twice without asking "How do I automate this darn thing so that I don't have to do it again?"

This book is for the SQL Server DBAs who want to break free from being constrained inside SQL Server and who want to have the freedom to access and use the administrative information wherever it may be kept.

Finally, this book is for those who want to acquire the ability to fill the holes in existing tools, stop the gaps among these tools, and extend existing tools to cover new problems.

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