Best Selling Books by Peter Carter

A biography of the man who transformed China from an ancient, traditional culture into a revolutionary nation.

Get a fast start to using AlwaysOn, the SQL Server solution to high-availability and disaster recovery. Read this short, 150-page book that is adapted from Peter Carter’s Pro SQL Server Administration to gain a solid and accurate understanding of how to implement systems requiring consistent and continuous uptime. Begin with an introduction to high-availability and disaster recovery concepts such as Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), availability levels, and the cost of downtime. Then move into detailed coverage of implementing and configuring the AlwaysOn feature set in order to meet the business objectives set by your organization. SQL Server AlwaysOn Revealed offers real-world advice on how to build and configure the most appropriate topology to meet the high-availability and disaster recovery requirements you are faced with. Content includes strong coverage on implementing clusters, on building AlwaysOn failover clustered instances, and on configuring AlwaysOn Availability Groups. This is a practical and hand-on book to get you started quickly in using one of the most talked-about SQL Server feature sets. Teaches you to build HA and DR solutions using the AlwaysOn feature set Provides real-world advice on configuration and performance considerations Demonstrates administrative techniques for the AlwaysOn feature set What You Will Learn Understand high availability and disaster recovery concepts and terminology. Understand the technologies available, to implement HA and DR. Build and configure a Windows Cluster. Build and configure an AlwaysOn failover clustered instance. Implement AlwaysOn Availability Groups and appropriately configure them. Administer AlwaysOn technologies post implementation. Who This Book Is For SQL Server AlwaysOn Revealed is for database administrators interested in growing their knowledge and skills in Microsoft SQL Server’s high-availability and disaster recovery feature set.

Pro SQL Server Administration brings SQL Server administration into the modern era with strong coverage of hybrid cloud environments, In-Memory OLTP, and installation on Server Core. This comprehensive guide to SQL Server Administration for today’s DBA helps you to administer the new and key areas of SQL Server, including Columnstore indexes and the In-Memory OLTP feature set introduced in 2014. You will also be guided through the administration of traditional areas of SQL Server, including how to secure your instance, monitor and maintain your instance, and to use features such as AlwaysOn to make your instance highly available. Also covered is the use of SQL Server features to scale out read-only workloads. Pro SQL Server Administration is an all-new book taking up-to-date and modern approach that you''ll want and need to further your career as a SQL Server database administrator. Extensive coverage of hybrid cloud environments involving Azure SQL Database Detailed discussions on all new, key features, including AlwaysOn and in-memory support Comprehensive coverage of key skills, such as monitoring, maintenance and indexing

Set in Northumbria at the end of the eighth century, the youthful Madatan''s story depicts the conflict between the animal will to survive and the desire to live in harmony with humanity and nature.

First Published in 2017. Volume 6 of the directory contains the Trade Unions of Building and Construction, Agriculture, Fishing, Chemicals, Wood and Woodworking, Transport, Engineering and Metal Working, Government, Civil and Public Service, Energy and Extraction in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Shipbuilding.

In early nineteenth-century England the son of a weaver becomes enmeshed in the struggle of the weavers against the mill owners, who are bringing in machine-driven looms.

Young Timur Ven marches with the Turkish army toward Vienna, as yong Stefan Zabruski marches with the Polish army to save the city from the infidels.

Just as fifteen-year-old East Berliner Erika Nordern is preparing for an important track competition, sinister police inquiries and the appearance of a relative believed to be dead indicate that her family has not yet escaped the shadow of long-ago Nazi crimes.

Young John Spencer is bound for the worst service in the Navy, an antislavery patrol aboard the HMS Sentinel in the West African Squadron.

Statistics is a topic that generates a range of emotions: from unmitigated joy at making sense of reams of data to sheer fright at the very mention of a word that sounds eerily like ''sadistics''. Data Analysis for Business: Statistics in a Brave New World aims to lessen the fear of this much-maligned science by introducing a range of practical applications and examples to fit a range of scenarios. Gone are the formulaic, number-crunching examples that dominate most textbooks, to be replaced by real-life examples. Each chapter includes instructions on how to convert data into easily interpretable output. Data Analysis for Business: Statistics in a Brave New World focuses on a mixture of descriptive and inferential statistics, including which graph best fits which dataset, which numbers are best used to summarise this dataset, how probability dictates our lives without consciously thinking of it in such terms, how the knowledge of relationships between variables can aid in prediction, and techniques to forecast key performance indicators. This book also explains why the median house price is not always an accurate guide to average house prices, how odds are calculated and how games like roulette use this to protect against ''losing runs'', why false positives in medicine produce an unnecessary ''scare factor'', how the law''s ''innocent until proven guilty'' dictum applies to statistics, and how a tool like multiple regression can be used to help you forecast the margin in a game of football.

Captain Teachum, who claims to be the world''s wickedest pirate and to have buried treasure in many ruined castles, desert islands, and jungles, reveals three secrets about himself.

A sympathetic account of life for a thirteen-year-old working class boy in the bitterly divided city of Belfast in 1969.

Imaging Science is the essential textbook for all undergraduate students and others training in diagnostic radiography, providing unique integrated coverage of physics, photography and equipment. Imaging Science shows the reader the principles of achieving maximum diagnostic image quality while minimising the potentially harmful effects of exposure to ionising radiation. The first five chapters explain X-ray imaging, from conventional procedures through to computed tomography (CT). Then, three chapters cover the imaging modalities based on gamma radiation (RNI), ultrasound and nuclear magnetic resonance (MRI). For readers whose previous science study has been limited, chapters 1 - 4 are accompanied by commentary notes which draw out and define key scientific terms.

Traditional knowledge of the Balkarranga people.

After being forced from his meager family farm in Texas in 1871, thirteen-year-old Ben Curtis witnesses some of the excitement and cruelty of the Old West--on a cattle drive, in a frontier town, and on a buffalo hunt.

"Cowboys and settlers, lawmen and outlaws. buffalo hunters amd the threat of the Comanche... tells how the West really was." - cover.