About The BookTake your database skills to the next level with this hands-on, step-by-step guide. 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 |