Microsoft SQL Server 2025: The Complete Beginner-to-Expert Guide for Developers, Database Administrators, Architects, and Cloud Professionals

By: A, Tanveer

Microsoft SQL Server 2025

The Complete Beginner-to-Expert Guide for Developers, Database Administrators, Architects, and Cloud Professionals

SQL Server 2025 is more than a database upgrade it represents a major evolution in how modern database professionals build, manage, secure, monitor, and optimize data platforms.

Mastering SQL Server 2025 takes you beyond basic administration and into the architecture, internals, tools, cloud platforms, automation, performance engineering, and AI capabilities that define the modern SQL Server DBA.

Whether you are an aspiring DBA, experienced database administrator, database engineer, cloud professional, or senior SQL Server practitioner, this book provides a practical reference for understanding how SQL Server 2025 works and how to manage it in real-world environments.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

- SQL Server 2025 architecture and internal engine components
- Memory management, storage engine, TempDB, and transaction log internals
- Checkpoints, recovery, crash recovery, backup, and restore
- Query processing, Intelligent Query Processing, Query Store, and indexing
- Performance tuning, troubleshooting, monitoring, and observability
- SQL Server 2025 AI and vector capabilities
- Security architecture, permissions, and database security operations
- Always On Availability Groups and high availability
- Disaster recovery architecture and production recovery strategies
- SQL Server Management Studio 22 and command-line tools
- Automation and modern DBA practices
- Database DevOps and Infrastructure as Code concepts
- SQL Server 2025 on Microsoft Azure and Azure Arc
- Microsoft Fabric integration
- SQL Server 2025 on AWS and AWS-based HA/DR
- Azure vs. AWS considerations for SQL Server environments
- Upgrade planning and migrations to Azure and AWS
- Performance engineering and production troubleshooting
- Real-world production scenarios every senior DBA should understand
- The transition from traditional DBA to Database Platform Engineer
- AI-assisted database administration and the AI-powered DBA
- A practical SQL Server DBA skills roadmap for 2026-2030

BUILT AS A PRACTICAL DBA REFERENCE

The book combines concepts, architecture, commands, troubleshooting approaches, operational guidance, and production-oriented scenarios so you can connect what SQL Server does with why it behaves that way.

It also includes valuable reference material:

- SQL Server 2025 DMV Cheat Sheet
- Important T-SQL Commands
- 100 SQL Server 2025 DBA Commands Every DBA Should Know

FROM DBA TO DATABASE ENGINEER

The modern DBA role extends beyond traditional database administration. Today's professionals increasingly work with cloud platforms, automation, DevOps, observability, AI, security, reliability, and multi-platform data architectures.

This book follows that evolution-from Database Administrator → Performance DBA → Cloud DBA → Database Engineer → AI-Aware DBA → Database Platform Engineer.

The goal is not simply to memorize commands.

It is to understand the engine, investigate problems systematically, automate repetitive work, operate across cloud environments, and make informed technical decisions.

Prepare for the next generation of database engineering.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HLQY9B8Q
• ISBN13: 9798178298329
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"