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Completely revised from the ground up, the new edition of this popular beginner's guide covers the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server. You will get a rigorous introduction to all of the new and improved features, including the administration, development, and Business Intelligence tools. This is the ideal resource for serious database novices, or anyone upgrading from the previous version of the software.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Basic Concepts and Installation
Chapter 1: Relational Database Systems – An Introduction
Chapter 2: Planning the Installation and Installing SQL Server
Chapter 3: SQL Server Management Studio
Part II: Transact-SQL Language
Chapter 4: SQL Components
Chapter 5: Data Definition Language
Chapter 6: Queries
Chapter 7: Modification of a Table’s Contents
Chapter 8: Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Chapter 9: System Catalog
Chapter 10: Indices
Chapter 11: Views
Chapter 12: Security
Chapter 13: Concurrency Control
Chapter 14: Triggers
Part III: SQL Server: System Administration
Chapter 15: System Environment
Chapter 16: Managing Databases and Database Files
Chapter 17: Backup and Recovery
Chapter 18: Automating System Administration Tasks
Chapter 19: Data Replication
Chapter 20: Query Optimizer and Performance Tuning
Part IV: Business Intelligence and SQL Server
Chapter 21: Business Intelligence – An Introduction
Chapter 22: Microsoft Analysis Services
Chapter 23: Optimizations Features for Analysis Services
Chapter 24: SQL/OLAP
Chapter 25: Reporting Services
Part V: Beyond Relational Data
Chapter 26: XML – An Introduction
Chapter 27: SQL Server 2008 and XM
Chapter 28: Spatial Data

About the Author

Dusan Petkovic is a computer science professorat the Polytechnic in Rosenheim, Germany. He is the bestselling author of the previous editions of this book and has written numerous articles for SQL Server Magazine.

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