<>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

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 20 Ratings

Great book, bad binding - 2009-02-04
Reviewer Rating:
This book is very comprehensive. My review has nothing to do with that. Look to some of the other reviewers for content. My problem has to do with form.

My binding broke.

I have lots of big books with big binding and I've discovered that if you have a thick book you're going to need thin layer of glue for the binding so that it can bend. This book has thick glue which causes it to break rather than bend. I love books and am always gentle with them. Unfortunately as soon as I reached chapter 36 it broke and now my book is held together with tape.

I've also noticed that a Barnes and Noble has a differently bound copy with a _really_ thick white glue that seemed thick enough to prevent breaking. So I guess it's a gamble, if you get the paperback, whether you'll have a book that will actually hold up to reading.

I suggest buying the hardback if you can find it.

Mediocre Reference Book - 2009-05-14
Reviewer Rating:
This book is a laundry list of features and how to implement them - not the place to go if you're looking for best practices or even the best choice among a few options. For that use something like Professional SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning (Programmer to Programmer).

Complaint. - 2009-04-09
Reviewer Rating:
This seller failed to deliver the book. I didn't recieve any thing from the seller for 3 weeks after my order. I contacted them and they refund my order. I'd like to claim my cost of time and energy for all the hessels. But I didn't. Maybe, you can do it. Please reflect this on seller's evaluation.

Andy Hongin Park

college textbooks - 2009-01-07
Reviewer Rating:
These were bought as a gift for my grandson. The classes will not start for another week or two. But he was pleased to get them.

Excelente Referencia - 2008-11-23
Reviewer Rating:
El libro cumple con su cometido. Resulta ser una excelente introducci-ón para las m-últiples caracteristicas de SQL Server 2005 sin ser una enciclopedia que profundice en dichos temas. Muy recomendable, sin embargo habr  que considerar dos elementos:
1. SQL Server 2008 se liber-ó este a-ño y
2. La informaci-ón en Internet resulta ser m s actualizada en algunos rubros.

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