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Title:
Beginning SQL server 2005 programming
Author:
Vieira, Robert.
ISBN:
9780764584336
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Publication Information:
Indianapolis, IN : Wiley, ©2006.
Physical Description:
xxv, 688 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Wrox professional guides

Wrox professional guides.
General Note:
Includes index.

"Programmer to programmer"--Cover.
Contents:
RDBMS basics: what makes up a SQL server database? -- Tools of the trade -- The foundation statements of T-SQL -- JOINs -- Creating and altering tables -- Constraints -- Adding more to our queries -- Being normal: normalization and other basic design issues -- SQL server storage and index structures -- Views -- Writing scripts and batches -- Stored procedures -- User defined functions -- Transactions and locks -- Triggers -- A brief XML primer -- Reporting for duty, sir!: a look at reporting services -- Getting integrated with integration services -- Playing administrator -- Appendix A: Exercise solutions -- Appendix B: System functions -- Appendix C: Finding the right tool -- Appendix D: Very simple connectivity examples -- Appendix E: Installing and using the samples.
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Summary

After a quick primer on database design basics and the SQL query language (for those programmers who may be building their first database application), this book provides an overview of SQL Server itself, which has been dramatically redesigned with the 2005 release Once readers have grasped the fundamentals of database design and SQL concepts, they will then learn how to implement those concepts with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Addresses creating and changing tables, managing keys, database normalization, writing scripts, working with stored procedures, programming with XML, and using SQL Server reporting and data transformation services The companion Web site provides all of the code found in the book