Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005: Database Essentials Step by Step...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 306 pages
• Published by: Microsoft Press; Pap/Cdr edition September 13, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0735622078
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735622074
• Book Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Book Description
The popular, learn-by-doing tutorialupdated for SQL Server 2005. Teach yourself the fundamental techniques for designing, building, testing, and deploying SQL Server databasesone step at a time.

Publisher Description
This book fills an important gap in learning for new database programmers and administrators working with SQL Server 2005. Instead of merely explaining new features, the popular STEP BY STEP approach provides practical, hands-on guidance on how to use key features within specific business scenarios. Readers will master the basics of database design and creation, including how to integrate solutions with applications for Microsoft Windows® and the Web. The companion CD includes data sets and sample code for all exercises.

Key Book Benefits:

Builds a solid understanding of how to use SQL Server 2005 to create database applications.

Provides sequential, step by step guidance for new programmers.

Features easy-to-understand, logically planned lessons, with necessary data sets and additional code samples on the CD.

Reader Reviews
An excellent introduction to Microsoft SQL Server for the beginner. It starts with the basic concepts of what a database is and how it is used. It covers installation of SQL Server 2005 exhaustivly. It then the best description I've seen on the management tools that come with the database. Designing a database is not difficult, but this book has a couple of chapters on how a database design needs to reflect the business needs of the organization. In essense, here is some of the background that needs to be considered before the actual work of laying out the database is done. This area is often missed in those books that are so oriented to the teckie approach. After these sections, which take up about one third of the book, the remainder of the book is on T-SQL. This is not an exhaustive coverage, but is very well suited for the person's first introduction to SQL. For instance, the SQL IF statement is mentioned only briefly. ==The CD provided with the book that includes sample files that are developed and used throughout the book. Comment (1) | | (Report this)