<p style="margin:0px;"> <b>Database Administration, Second Edition,</b> is the definitive, technology-independent guide to the modern</p> <p style="margin:0px;">discipline of database administration. Packed with best practices and proven solutions for any database platform</p> <p style="margin:0px;">or environment, this text fully reflects the field’s latest realities and challenges. Drawing on more than thirty</p> <p style="margin:0px;">years of database experience, Mullins focuses on problems that today’s DBAs actually face, and skills and</p> <p style="margin:0px;">knowledge they simply must have.</p> <p style="margin:0px;">Mullins presents realistic, thorough, and up-to-date coverage of every DBA task, including creating database</p> <p style="margin:0px;">environments, data modeling, normalization, design, performance, data integrity, compliance, governance,</p> <p style="margin:0px;">security, backup/recovery, disaster planning, data and storage management, data movement/distribution,</p> <p style="margin:0px;">data warehousing, connectivity, metadata, tools, and more.</p> <p style="margin:0px;">This edition adds new coverage of “Big Data,” database appliances, cloud computing, and NoSQL. Mullins</p> <p style="margin:0px;">includes an entirely new chapter on the DBA’s role in regulatory compliance, with substantial new material on</p> <p style="margin:0px;">data breaches, auditing, encryption, retention, and metadata management. You’ll also find an all-new glossary,</p> <p style="margin:0px;">plus up-to-the-minute DBA rules of thumb.</p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p>