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Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization
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Pro SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization will teach you effective
strategies for designing proper databases. It covers everything from how to
gather business requirements to logical data modeling and normalization. It
then shows you how to implement your design on SQL Server 2005.
The authors also describe how to optimize and secure access to this data, covering
indexing strategies, SQL design and optimization, and strategies for increased
scalability to support large numbers of concurrent users. They provide in-depth
advice on optimal code distribution in SQL Server 2005 applications, in the
wake of innovations to be able to use .NET code in the database itself. This
essential book will ensure that projects have a well-designed database and secure,
optimized data access strategies right from the start.
About the Authors
Louis Davidson has been in the IT industry for 10 years as a
corporate database developer and architect. He is currently a database administrator
for Compass Technology Management, supporting the Christian Broadcasting Network
and NorthStar Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.
Davidson has a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
in computer science with a minor in mathematics. The majority of his experience
has been with Microsoft SQL Server from version 1.0 to the latest version (currently
in beta). His areas of expertise are database architecture and coding in T-SQL,
and he has written thousands of stored procedures and triggers through the years.
In October 2004, Davidson was named a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server.
Kevin Kline- A biography is not available for this author.
Kurt Windisch- A biography is not available for this author.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 2 Average Customer Rating: Oct 18, 2006 Diana Smith from Indiana
Every DBA should read it!
This is the first book I have read from Louis Davidson and Kevin Kline. The book is excellent. Louis's approach to helping you understand the concepts are displayed well with code examples. You will read a passage and then see an example to really enforce the principle. The examples support the concepts and using both together helped me out a great deal.
The chapters on Securing Acceass to the data I found to be really helpful. This architecure chapter goes in much needed detail as so many books just glance over the different Oracle tuning. What the processes are used for and how they can be tuned is well documented. The coding for concurrency chapter helped me understand how to configure and best to take its advantage its fullest level for a given situation. At the end of the RDBMS chapter author has a section on specific tuning and this section should be required reading for all DBAs and developers.
Something else I got from the book are methods for writing SQL and tuning it. The SQL that the author puts together looks so easy and natural for him to write. He is a master of SQL*Plus and that is a side benefit to reading the book. The techniques I picked up from reading examples will help me just as much or more so than content of the book. This book is an excellent addition to my database collection of books and I highly recommend reading it.
Sep 12, 2006  Corey Solomon from USA
An extensive book on optimization
This book completely demystifies a number of SQL tuning concepts. This book provides a superb overview of the various performance topics, and then drills down deep enough into the concepts to give you the insights necessary to tackle thorny performance problems with multiple causes. This is a very valuable book for SQL server 2005--The techniques described in this book are effective and well thought out. Even if performance optimization is the main goal, this book is well worth reading for sql code and administration. The book delivers in-depth information on indexing, locking, the optimizer and many other topics in a very readable format. Ideal for those with some knowledge of SQL Server who want to dig deeper.
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