Extend your programming skills with a comprehensive study of the key features of SQL Server 2008. Delve into the new core capabilities, get practical guidance from expert developers, and put their code samples to work. This is a must-read for Microsoft .NET and SQL Server developers who work with data access—at the database, business logic, or presentation levels.
Discover how to:
- Query complex data with powerful Transact-SQL enhancements
- Use new, non-relational features: hierarchical tables, native file streaming, and geospatial capabilities
- Exploit XML inside the database to design XML-aware applications
- Consume and deliver your data using Microsoft LINQ, Entity Framework, and data binding
- Implement database-level encryption and server auditing
- Build and maintain data warehouses
- Use Microsoft Excel to build front ends for OLAP cubes, and MDX to query them
- Integrate data mining into applications quickly and effectively.
Get code samples on the Web.
- ISBN10 0735638195
- ISBN13 9780735638198
- Publish Date 29 October 2008 (first published 1 October 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Microsoft Press,U.S.
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 2350
- Language English