OverviewDirect from Microsoft Insiders: the Complete
Hands-On Guide to
SQL Server 2005's Powerful Tools!
Microsoft SQL Server 2005's
high-powered management tools can dramatically
improve DBA productivity and effectiveness.
Now there's a comprehensive guide
to SQL Server 2005's toolset, straight
from the Microsoft team that created it.
This book covers the entire toolset in
unprecedented depth, guides database
professionals in choosing the right tools,
and shows them how to use various
tools collectively to solve real-world
problems. The authors present "how-to"
solutions and never-before-published tips
for SQL Server 2005 installation,
upgrades, configuration, authoring, schema
design, development, deployment,
optimization, troubleshooting, and more.
Coverage includes
 Understanding how SQL Server
2005 tools differ from their predecessors
 Leveraging the new Business
Intelligence Development Studio and
Management Studio to accomplish dozens of
common tasks
 Improving security by reducing
the "surface area" you expose
 Executing queries with the new
Query Editor and SQLCMD query tools
 Optimizing with the revamped
SQL Server Profiler and Database
Engine Tuning Advisor
 Scheduling maintenance tasks
with the SQL Server Agent
 Monitoring with the Activity
Monitor, SQL Server Agent, and other tools
 Moving data efficiently and
reliably with Integration Services
 Using SQL Server's new
e-mail tool, Database Mail
 Managing replication in complex
distributed environments
 Mastering SQL Server's
Analysis Services' OLAP and Data Mining tools
 Using Notification Services
2.0, Reporting Services, and more
 Extending functionality using
underlying APIs and the included
CD-ROM's sample code.
MICHAEL RAHEEM is the senior product
manager of the Microsoft SQL Server
team and led the design and implementation
of several SQL Server tools, such
as SQL Server Management Studio, Database
Mail, Upgrade Advisors, and
Surface Area Configuration. He currently
leads the SQL Server enterprise
marketing efforts including high
availability, scalability, and performance.
DIMA SONKIN is development lead in
the SQL Server Tools group responsible
for SQL Server Agent, SMO, DMO, SQL
Profiler, Database Engine Tuning Advisor,
Database Mail, SQLMail, SqlCmd, and
OSQL.
THIERRY D'HERS is the lead
program manager on Microsoft's SQL BI Analysis
Services team and has spent five years
designing and specifying Analysis
Services tools.
KAMI LEMONDS is the documentation
manager for Microsoft's SQL Server User
Education team and contributed to the SQL
Server 2000 Resource Kit.
CD-ROM contains all sample code from the
book and corresponding
Visual Studio project files.
Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . xxvi
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . xxvii
Chapter 1 Inside the Fundamentals. . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 Inside the Installation and
Upgrade Tools. . . . . . . 23
Chapter 3 Inside the Configuration Tools . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 4 Inside Management and
Administration Tools . . 129
Chapter 5 Inside Data Authoring Tools . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Chapter 6 Inside SQLCMD Query Tools . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Chapter 7 Inside Tuning and Optimization
Tools . . . . . . . . . 237
Chapter 8 Inside Scheduling Tools . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Chapter 9 Inside Monitoring Tools. . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Chapter 10 Inside Email Tools . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Chapter 11 Inside Programming Object Models
. . . . . . . . . . 357
Chapter 12 Inside Replication Tools . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Chapter 13 Inside Analysis Services OLAP
Tools . . . . . . . . . 429
Chapter 14 Inside Analysis Services Data
Mining Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 519
Chapter 15 Inside Notification Services
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Chapter 16 Inside Integration Services Tools
. . . . . . . . . . . . 601
Chapter 17 Inside the Reporting Services
Tools . . . . . . . . . . 679
Appendix A Sample KPI Client Code—
Retrieving and
Exposing Your First KPI. . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 711
Appendix B KPI Utilities—Code for
Parsing Display
Folders and Getting Image Indexes . . . . .
. . . . . 713
Appendix C KPI Viewer . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721
Appendix D Complete List of Data Mining
Stored
Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 723
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733
