Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed

by: Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed
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<>Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed offers comprehensivecoverage of SQL Server 2005 that goes beyond the basic syntax andinformation you’ll find in the product manuals, providing in-depthinformation derived from the authors’ real-world experience to help youbuild upon your working knowledge of the product and take yourexperience and knowledge to a higher level. This book focuses primarilyon the information needed by system and database administrators, aswell as for users with overlapping duties as both DBA and developer.Included is extensive coverage of the new features and upgraded toolsand capabilities of SQL Server 2005, including .NET Frameworkintegration, Integration Services, Service Broker, Database Mirroringand Snapshots, and Reporting Services.





Detailed information on…

  • Installing, upgrading, and administering SQL Server 2005
  • Database maintenance, backup, and recovery
  • Creating and managing tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions
  • Database and index design
  • SQL Server query optimization, and performance monitoring and tuning
  • Transactions, transaction management, and distributed transactions
  • SQL Server Management Studio—NEW!
  • SQL Server Notification Services; Integration Services—NEW!; Analysis Services; Reporting Services—NEW!; Web Services—NEW!
  • SQL Server Service Broker—NEW!
  • SQL Server and Microsoft .NET Framework integration, including CLR-based stored procedures, functions, and triggers—NEW!
  • SQL Server high availability and SQL Server clustering and replication
  • Database Mirroring—NEW!
  • Database Snapshots—NEW!
  • Using XML in SQL Server 2005
  • SQL Server tools and utilities



CD-ROM includes

  • 8 bonus chapters covering topics such as Notification Services, Service Broker, and Full-Text Search
  • Code samples, scripts, and sample databases
  • A PDF version of the entire book





Introduction


Part I Welcome to Microsoft SQL Server

1 SQL Server 2005 Overview

2 What’s New in SQL Server 2005

Part II SQL Server Tools and Utilities

3 SQL Server Management Studio

4 SQL Server Command-Line Utilities


5 SQL Server Profiler

Part III SQL Server Administration

6 SQL Server System and Database Administration


7 Installing SQL Server 2005


8 Upgrading to SQL Server 2005

9 Client Installation and Configuration

10 Security and User Administration

11 Database Backup and Restore


12 Database Mail

13 SQL Server Scheduling and Notification

14 SQL Server High Availability.


15 Replication

16 Database Mirroring

17 SQL Server Clustering

Part IV Database Administration

18 Creating and Managing Databases

19 Creating and Managing Tables

20 Creating and Managing Indexes

21 Implementing Data Integrity

22 Creating and Managing Views in SQL Server

23 Creating and Managing Stored Procedures

24 Creating and Managing User-Defined Functions

25 Creating and Managing Triggers

26 Transaction Management and the Transaction Log

27 Database Snapshots


28 Database Maintenance

Part V SQL Server Performance and Optimization

29 Indexes and Performance

30 Understanding Query Optimization

31 Query Analysis

32 Locking and Performance

33 Database Design and Performance


34 Monitoring SQL Server Performance


Part VI SQL Server Application Development

35 What’s New for Transact-SQL in SQL Server 2005

36 SQL Server and the .NET Framework


37 Using XML in SQL Server 2005

38 SQL Server Web Services

Part VII SQL Server Business Intelligence Features

39 SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

40 SQL Server Integration Services


41 SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services


Bonus Chapters on the CD

42 Managing Linked and Remote Servers


43 Configuring, Tuning, and Optimizing SQL Server Options

44 Administering Very Large SQL Server Databases


45 SQL Server Disaster Recovery Planning


46 Transact-SQL Programming Guidelines, Tips, and Tricks

47 SQL Server Notification Services


48 SQL Server Service Broker

49 SQL Server Full-Text Search


Index








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Average Rating: out of 5 stars
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Mediocre Reference Book
This book is a laundry list of features and how to implement them - not the place to go if you're looking for best practices or even the best choice among a few options.For that use something like Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning (Programmer to Programmer).
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Complaint.
This seller failed to deliver the book. I didn't recieve any thing from the seller for 3 weeks after my order. I contacted them and they refund my order. I'd like to claim my cost of time and energy for all the hessels. But I didn't. Maybe, you can do it. Please reflect this on seller's evaluation.

Andy Hongin Park
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great book, bad binding
This book is very comprehensive.My review has nothing to do with that.Look to some of the other reviewers for content.My problem has to do with form.

My binding broke.

I have lots of big books with big binding and I've discovered that if you have a thick book you're going to need thin layer of glue for the binding so that it can bend.This book has thick glue which causes it to break rather than bend.I love books and am always gentle with them.Unfortunately as ... Read More
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - college textbooks
These were bought as a gift for my grandson.The classes will not start for another week or two.But he was pleased to get them.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Excelente Referencia
El libro cumple con su cometido. Resulta ser una excelente introducción para las múltiples caracteristicas de SQL Server 2005 sin ser una enciclopedia que profundice en dichos temas. Muy recomendable, sin embargo habrá que considerar dos elementos:
1. SQL Server 2008 se liberó este año y
2. La información en Internet resulta ser más actualizada en algunos rubros.
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