SQL Server 2005 is Microsoft’s next-generation data management and analysis solution that delivers enhanced scalability, availability, and security features to enterprise data and analytical applications while making them easier to create, deploy, and manage. Now you can teach yourself how to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain SQL Server databases—one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Instead of merely focusing on describing new features, this book shows new database programmers and administrators how to use specific features within typical business scenarios. Each chapter puts you to work, providing a highly practical learning experience that demonstrates how to build database solutions to solve common business problems.

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Horrible! - 2007-06-05
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I have yet to find a book by Microsoft Press that is well-written, and this one is the worst of them all. It was certainly a waste of my money. There are many other books on SQL 2005 that are far better.

Mostly focused on SQL statements for developers and DBA's - 2007-09-27
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There is nothing in this book that you can not find in another more organized book.

MS SQL Server 2005 Appplied Techniques - 2009-09-03
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This book is great for starters. The techniques the book has are all strictly by the book. I think this is one of the easiest books to understand especially in the security section. I have read other books about sql server maintenance and I did not quite understand what it was talking about when it came to security. Another good chapter about this book is the queering performance, it shows how to use the execution plan and that was a great help to me. Microsoft Press did a really good job on this book, like I said it is very easy to understand the concepts.

Not very good - 2008-08-11
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I'm about 1/2 way through this book and probably going to stop reading it. It's really just a general overview of SQL Server 2005, and is really unhelpful if you actually want to learn to use the software.

Mediocre overview of SQL 2005 - 2008-02-01
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overview of all aspects but not as clear as could be, lot's of pre-knowledge about visual basic is assumed and not that clearly organized. There are a lot better books out there.

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