Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Applied Techniques Step by Step

Learn more-advanced skills to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain SQL Server databases-one step at a time. Ideal for developers who understand database essentials, this learn-by-doing tutorial offers practical guidance, code samples, and a collection of techniques to help you solve real-world business problems. Discover how to: * Manage data access with server logins and user and server roles * Implement a disaster recovery strategy * Use aggregate functions to compute totals and complex statistical values * Optimize query performance by managing IO statistics and designing indexes * Work with remote data sources-including third-party databases * Provide remote access through the Internet or a middle-tier service interface * Manage transactions, implement error handlers, and define isolation levels * Go further and work with SQL Server Reporting Services and Notification Services Includes a CD featuring: * All practice exercises * Code samples For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.