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Cover of Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed, Third Edition

Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed, Third Edition will still include previous topics like: SQL Server Architecture, Transact-SQL Programming, Performance and Tuning, System Administration, Open Client Programming, SQL Server and the WWW. Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Unleashed, Third Edition will cover new topics, as well as updated information on existing topics, such as: Expanded Web Coverage, Scalability issues, Features of Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, Enterprise Edition, Replication, ODBC, ADO, OLE DB and RDS, OLTP, Clustering, and Data Warehousing.

Cover of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed
>Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Unleashed offers comprehensive coverage of SQL Server 2005 that goes beyond the basic syntax and information you'll find in the product manuals, providing in-depth information derived from the authors' real-world experience to help you build upon your working knowledge of the product and take your experience and knowledge to a higher level. This book focuses primarily on the information needed by system and database administrators, as well as for users with overlapping duties as both DBA and developer. Included is extensive coverage of the new features and upgraded tools and capabilities of SQL Server 2005, including .NET Framework integration, Integration Services, Service Broker, Database Mirroring and 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

Cover of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed
The industry’s most complete, useful, and up-to-date guide to SQL Server 2014.


You’ll find start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server’s core database server and management capabilities: all the real-world information, tips, guidelines, and examples you’ll need to install, monitor, maintain, and optimize the
most complex database environments. The provided examples and sample code provide plenty of hands-on opportunities to learn more about SQL Server and create your own viable solutions.


Four leading SQL Server experts present deep practical insights for administering SQL Server, analyzing and optimizing queries, implementing data warehouses, ensuring high availability, tuning performance, and much more. You will benefit from their behind-the-scenes look into SQL Server, showing what goes on behind the various wizards and GUI-based tools. You’ll learn how to use the underlying SQL commands to fully unlock the power and capabilities of SQL Server.


Writing for all intermediate-to-advanced-level SQL Server professionals, the authors draw on immense production experience with SQL Server. Throughout, they focus on successfully applying SQL Server 2014’s most powerful capabilities and its newest tools and features.


Detailed information on how to…



Understand SQL Server 2014’s new features and each edition’s capabilities and licensing
Install, upgrade to, and configure SQL Server 2014 for better performance and easier management
Streamline and automate key administration tasks with Smart Admin
Leverage powerful new backup/restore options: flexible backup to URL, Managed Backup to Windows Azure, and encrypted backups
Strengthen security with new features for enforcing “least privilege”
Improve performance with updateable columnstore indexes, Delayed Durability, and other enhancements
Execute queries and business logic more efficiently with memoryoptimized tables, buffer pool extension, and natively-compiled stored procedures
Control workloads and Disk I/O with the Resource Governor
Deploy AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Failover Cluster Instances to achieve enterprise-class availability and disaster recovery
Apply new Business Intelligence improvements in Master Data Services, data quality, and Parallel Data Warehouse