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Video: SQL Server's Services - MSSQLSERVER, SQLAGENT, MSDTC and more

  • ·Skill level: 200 (Beginner - Intermediate)
  • ·Run Time: 11:08
  • ·Instructor: Scott Whigham

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More and more we need to know the internals of the heavy software - the architecture of the beast, if you will. This video's goal is to teach you the services that SQL Server uses - the SQL Server service (MSSQLServer for the default instance and MSSQL$InstanceName for other instances), the SQL Agent service, and the ancillary services like Full-Text's Microsoft Search Service and the MSDTC - the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service. This video provides an excellent overview of how SQL Server works within the operating system and how the services work with each other

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Scott Whigham

Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio, and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries, and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most re... (Scott's full bio can be found here)


NOTE: This video is part of our SQL Server 2005 Database Administration course.
This video is from Chapter 4: Configuration: Services, Instances, Network Libraries, and More

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