Guy Harrison

CockroachDB is the distributed SQL database that handles the demands of today's data-driven applications. The second edition of this popular hands-on guide shows software developers, architects, and DevOps/SRE teams how to use CockroachDB for applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining indestructible.Data professionals will learn how to migrate existing applications to CockroachDB's performant, cloud-native data architecture. You'll also quickly discover the benefits of strong data correctness and consistency guarantees, plus optimizations for delivering ultra-low latencies to globally distributed end users.Uncover the power of distributed SQLLearn how to start, manage, and optimize projects in CockroachDBExplore best practices for data modeling, schema design, and distributed infrastructureDiscover strategies for migrating data into CockroachDBSee how to read, write, and run ACID transactions across distributed systemsMaximize resiliency in multiregion clustersSecure, monitor, and fine-tune your CockroachDB deployment for peak performance

Elegant and descriptive, SQL has long been the essential language for relational databases, but it's a complex language to learn and use. Ideal for experienced programmers, analysts, and database administrators, this comprehensive reference guide clearly documents every SQL command and reference with practical examples that illustrate important concepts and uses. It's a wealth of information packed into a succinct, comprehensive, and easy-to-use format. The updated fourth edition of SQL in a Nutshell explains how to implement SQL in leading commercial and open source database products, such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Get the lowdown on CockroachDB, the distributed SQL database built to handle the demands of today's data-driven cloud applications. In this hands-on guide, software developers, architects, and DevOps/SRE teams will learn how to use CockroachDB to create applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining indestructible. Teams will also learn how to migrate existing applications to CockroachDB's performant, cloud native data architecture. If you're familiar with distributed systems, you'll quickly discover the benefits of strong data correctness and consistency guarantees as well as optimizations for delivering ultra low latencies to globally distributed end users. You'll learn how to: Design and build applications for distributed infrastructure, including data modeling and schema design Migrate data into CockroachDB Read and write data and run ACID transactions across distributed infrastructure Plan a CockroachDB deployment for resiliency across single region and multi-region clusters Secure, monitor, and optimize your CockroachDB deployment

Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association When sports fans turn on the television or radio today, they undoubtedly find more women on the air than ever before. Nevertheless, women sportscasters are still subjected to gendered and racialized mistreatment in the workplace and online and are largely confined to anchor and sideline reporter positions in coverage of high-profile men’s sports. In On the Sidelines Guy Harrison weaves in-depth interviews with women sportscasters, focus groups with sports fans, and a collection of media products to argue that gendered neoliberalism-a cluster of exclusionary twenty-first-century feminisms-maintains this status quo. Spinning a cohesive narrative, Harrison shows how sportscasting’s dependence on gendered neoliberalism broadly places the onus on women for their own success despite systemic sexism and racism. As a result, women in the industry are left to their own devices to navigate double standards, bias in hiring and development for certain on-air positions, harassment, and emotional labor. Through the lens of gendered neoliberalism, On the Sidelines examines each of these challenges and analyzes how they have been reshaped and maintained to construct a narrow portrait of the ideal neoliberal female sportscaster. Consequently, these challenges are taken for granted as “natural,” sustaining women’s marginalization in the sportscasting industry.

Winner of the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association When sports fans turn on the television or radio today, they undoubtedly find more women on the air than ever before. Nevertheless, women sportscasters are still subjected to gendered and racialized mistreatment in the workplace and online and are largely confined to anchor and sideline reporter positions in coverage of high-profile men’s sports. In On the Sidelines Guy Harrison weaves in-depth interviews with women sportscasters, focus groups with sports fans, and a collection of media products to argue that gendered neoliberalism-a cluster of exclusionary twenty-first-century feminisms-maintains this status quo. Spinning a cohesive narrative, Harrison shows how sportscasting’s dependence on gendered neoliberalism broadly places the onus on women for their own success despite systemic sexism and racism. As a result, women in the industry are left to their own devices to navigate double standards, bias in hiring and development for certain on-air positions, harassment, and emotional labor. Through the lens of gendered neoliberalism, On the Sidelines examines each of these challenges and analyzes how they have been reshaped and maintained to construct a narrow portrait of the ideal neoliberal female sportscaster. Consequently, these challenges are taken for granted as “natural,” sustaining women’s marginalization in the sportscasting industry.

Use this fast and complete guide to optimize the performance of MongoDB databases and the applications that depend on them. You will be able to turbo-charge the performance of your MongoDB applications to provide a better experience for your users, reduce your running costs, and avoid application growing pains. MongoDB is the world’s most popular document database and the foundation for thousands of mission-critical applications. This book helps you get the best possible performance from MongoDB.MongoDB Performance Tuning takes a methodical and comprehensive approach to performance tuning that begins with application and schema design and goes on to cover optimization of code at all levels of an application. The book also explains how to configure MongoDB hardware and cluster configuration for optimal performance. The systematic approach in the book helps you treat the true causes of performance issues and get the best return on your tuninginvestment. Even when you’re under pressure and don’t know where to begin, simply follow the method in this book to set things right and get your MongoDB performance back on track.What You Will LearnApply a methodical approach to MongoDB performance tuningUnderstand how to design an efficient MongoDB applicationOptimize MongoDB document design and indexing strategiesTune MongoDB queries, aggregation pipelines, and transactionsOptimize MongoDB server resources: CPU, memory, diskConfigure MongoDB Replica sets and Sharded clusters for optimal performanceWho This Book Is ForDevelopers and administrators of high-performance MongoDB applications who want to be sure they are getting the best possible performance from their MongoDB system. For developers who wish to create applications that are fast, scalable,and cost-effective. For administrators who want to optimize their MongoDB server and hardware configuration.

"It’s not easy to find such a generous book on big data and databases. Fortunately, this book is the one." Feng Yu. Computing Reviews. June 28, 2016. This is a book for enterprise architects, database administrators, and developers who need to understand the latest developments in database technologies. It is the book to help you choose the correct database technology at a time when concepts such as Big Data, NoSQL and NewSQL are making what used to be an easy choice into a complex decision with significant implications. The relational database (RDBMS) model completely dominated database technology for over 20 years. Today this "one size fits all" stability has been disrupted by a relatively recent explosion of new database technologies. These paradigm-busting technologies are powering the "Big Data" and "NoSQL" revolutions, as well as forcing fundamental changes in databases across the board. Deciding to use a relational database was once truly a no-brainer,and the various commercial relational databases competed on price, performance, reliability, and ease of use rather than on fundamental architectures. Today we are faced with choices between radically different database technologies. Choosing the right database today is a complex undertaking, with serious economic and technological consequences. Next Generation Databases demystifies today’s new database technologies. The book describes what each technology was designed to solve. It shows how each technology can be used to solve real word application and business problems. Most importantly, this book highlights the architectural differences between technologies that are the critical factors to consider when choosing a database platform for new and upcoming projects.Introduces the new technologies that have revolutionized the database landscapeDescribes how each technology can be used to solve specific application or business challengesReviews the most popular new wave databases and how they use these new database technologies

Provides information on the implementation of the stored procedures in MySQL 5.0.