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Part 3  Adding Logic to the Database [Table of Contents] Part 5  The Adaptive Server Family

ASA User's Guide

[-] Part 4 Database Administration and Advanced Use

Database Administration and Advanced Use

This part focuses on administrative tasks and getting the most out of Adaptive Server Anywhere.

[-] Chapter 20: Backup and Data Recovery
[+] Introduction to backup and recovery
[+] Understanding backups
[+] Designing backup procedures
[+] Configuring your database for data protection
[+] Backup and recovery internals
[+] Backup and recovery tasks
[-] Chapter 21: Managing User IDs and Permissions
[+] Database permissions overview
[+] Managing individual user IDs and permissions
[+] Managing groups
Database object names and prefixes
[+] Using views and procedures for extra security
How user permissions are assessed
Managing the resources connections use
Users and permissions in the system tables
[-] Chapter 22: Keeping Your Data Secure
Security features overview
Security tips
[+] Controlling database access
[+] Controlling the tasks users can perform
[+] Auditing database activity
[+] Running the database server in a secure fashion
[-] Chapter 23: Working with Database Files
Overview of database files
[+] Using additional dbspaces
Working with write files
[+] Using the utility database
[-] Chapter 24: Monitoring and Improving Performance
[+] Top performance tips
[+] Using keys to improve query performance
[+] Using indexes to improve query performance
Search strategies for queries from more than one table
Sorting query results
Temporary tables used in query processing
[+] How the optimizer works
[+] Monitoring database performance
[-] Chapter 25: Query Optimization
The role of the optimizer
Steps in optimization
Reading access plans
[+] Underlying assumptions
[+] Physical data organization and access
[+] Indexes
Predicate analysis
[+] Semantic query transformations
[+] Selectivity estimation
[+] Join enumeration and index selection
[+] Cost estimation
Subquery caching
[-] Chapter 26: Client/Server Communications
[+] Network communication concepts
[+] Real world protocol stacks
Supported network protocols
[+] Using the TCP/IP protocol
[+] Using the IPX protocol
[+] Using the NetBIOS protocol
Using Named Pipes
[+] Troubleshooting network communications
Configuring your network adapter board
Evaluating network performance
[-] Chapter 27: Deploying Databases and Applications
[+] Deployment overview
[+] Operating systems and installation directories
[+] Using a silent installation for deployment
[+] Deploying client applications
[+] Deploying database servers
[+] Deploying embedded database applications
File naming conventions
[-] Chapter 28: Accessing Remote Data
[+] Introduction
[+] Basic concepts
[+] Working with remote servers
[+] Working with external logins
[+] Working with proxy tables
Example: a join between two remote tables
Accessing multiple local databases
Sending native statements to remote servers
Using remote procedure calls (RPCs)
[+] Transaction management and remote data
[+] Internal operations
[+] Troubleshooting remote data access
[-] Chapter 29: Server Classes for Remote Data Access
Overview
[+] JDBC-based server classes
[+] ODBC-based server classes


Chapter 19:  Debugging Logic in the Database [Table of Contents] Chapter 20:  Backup and Data Recovery